What happens to a person when years pass without being touched, held or chosen?

Notes From Overground is not a novel, nor a self-help book, but a diary of survival. Written in fragments across 158 entries, it is the voice of one man navigating life in the shadow of absence: a life shaped by loneliness, social silence and the ache of unfulfilled intimacy.

Zakir Hossain writes with stark honesty about the small details that cut deeply. A handshake remembered for over a decade. A glimpse of warmth through strangers' windows. The weight of an empty chair at a kitchen table. He reflects on moments of childhood belonging that remain vivid against the emptiness of adulthood, and on the quiet humiliations that are rarely spoken of.

This is not a story of grand tragedy. It is a record of ordinary days passed in quiet hunger, of notes never delivered, words left unsaid and the quiet courage it takes simply to keep waiting. Yet within the stillness there are flickers of hope. A smile at the corner shop. A message answered after years. The possibility that even in silence, connection might still arrive.

Unflinching and tender, Notes From Overground holds up a mirror to the hidden lives of those who go unnoticed. It is a meditation on the cost of invisibility and the resilience of longing. For readers of personal memoir, reflective prose and intimate diaries, this book offers not answers, but recognition, and the rare comfort of knowing you are not alone in your solitude.

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