Relationships are achingly complex, even more so when it?s a father and his accidentalove child. Two strangers meet serendipitously. One is an irrepressible, mischievous brat and the other a brooding platitudinous bore. Their contrasting individual paths that portend a star-crossed disaster suddenly find a shared future. Fate brings them under the same roof, and soon, the insolent child?s wild, roller-coaster, mind-numbingife takes centre stage in a moody family?s wacky, dysfunctional abode. What follows is a fantastical journey, and that is putting it mildly. Enter an unexpected visitor, and soon theirives are completely disarranged. The vicissitudes ofife are on full display as the father-son duo confront a new reality. The family struggles to grapple with the new power dynamic as circumstances start spiralling beyond everyone?s control, with grievous consequences. In this exceptional slice-of-life book, Sanjay Jha tells us a heart-rending account ofove andoss, happiness and grief, regret and redemption. ?Grief, once it checks in, is a permanent guest?, says the tiny protagonist. Is atonement and forgiveness at all possible, or is it just a desperate human urge for finding inner peace? Is time, eventually, the only true healer? Can we really move on? In My Illegitimate Son, Sanjay Jha narrates a stirringly poignant story, which has both riotousaughter and abundant sorrow, that might just find an echo with your own.