Samiha Hussain

Blending fiction with lived experience, The Simulacrum belongs to the genre of autofiction, a form that blurs the boundaries between autobiography and imagination. Rather than following a traditional plot, it turns inward, tracing the protagonist’s inner world: her disintegration, her tentative reconstruction, and her philosophical reckonings with selfhood, love, and loss. Episodic, confessional, and deeply introspective, this book is a work that lingers on questions rather than answers; it is an invitation for readers to step into another consciousness and perhaps find parallels in their own.