Krupa Ge's novel 'Burns Boy,' set in 1990s Chennai, explores the lingering impact of trauma on a family through the voices of a teenage boy in a burn ward, his sister, and their mother. The narrative, fragmented like human memory, delves into themes of neglect, guilt, and invisibility, using the burn ward as a metaphor for gendered suffering and societal expectations of endurance. The novel examines how love coexists with pain, focusing on the emotional scars rather than the precise cause of the fire.