Alex is in her forties, a freelance science journalist who lives alone and has chosen not to have children. Her mother, a mathematician, spent Alex's entire childhood on the second floor of their house, absorbed in books, notebooks, and equations. Their relationship has long been marked by mutual criticism and emotional distance.

When her mother begins to show signs of dementia, Alex feels compelled to build a new relationship with the very person she has never felt fully loved by, yet has always longed for.

Structured around mathematical concepts – Event, Regression line, Isolated point, Existence proof, Open sentence – the novel mirrors the mother’s lifelong devotion to logic while exposing the limits of reason in matters of love.

Open Sentence is a tender and piercing novel about the fractured bond between an adult daughter and her disappearing mother – about what we remember, what we forget, and how love is not always enough.

To be published in March, 2026.