Letters to K - Anu Lakhan

"Dear Herr Kafka, Thank you for your timely death."

So begins the correspondence of JL with deceased Czech literary titan, Franz Kafka, or K, as she comes to think of him. For JL, K is the ideal penpal: sensitive, insightful, and very, very dead. A good listener for a young woman seeking to figure out a few things about the world.

Letters to K is Anu Lakhan's first chapbook. She is a poet, writer, editor, friend to cats and Kafka. Born and living in Trinidad and Tobago, she has never knowingly sent a letter to anyone in Czechia, living or dead.