KAL: The Witness

Kal Mehta rides the same tram to the same office every morning and nobody notices him. He prefers it that way.What nobody knows is what he sees. The manager whose cruelty is forty-six years old and still wearing a school uniform. The neighbour who can only think clearly when her partner is not calling. The boy awake at three in the morning with a phone six inches from his face. The woman on a hospital floor who has just been handed something she cannot carry.Kal sees all of it. He learned a long time ago that seeing is not the same as fixing.He does not advise anyone. He does not heal anyone. He sits down on the floor beside her, and he stays.Set across one Melbourne winter, KAL: The Witness follows an invisible man through the ordinary days of people who will never know he looked. A novel about attention, and what it costs to be the only person in the room paying it.Written with ADHD readers in mind. Every chapter stands on its own. The book was built to be put down and picked up.