About the Book
When the Cherished Is Home is not a conventional book—it is a guided return. Part memoir, part spiritual meditation, part psychological inquiry, and part poetic testimony, it explores the idea of “home” as a physical space, a mental structure, a spiritual presence, and ultimately, a lived relationship with the Self and the Divine.
Moving fluidly between memory, theology, neuroscience, grief, ritual, and art, the book asks a single, insistent question: What does it mean to be housed—truly housed—within yourself? Omarjee reframes the concept of God not as a distant authority, but as a “Cherished Guest”: an animating presence that enters when the house is made honest rather than perfect.
This is a book that does not rush healing. It honours disorder, doubt, anger, and collapse as necessary rooms on the way to wholeness. In doing so, it offers readers not instruction, but companionship.
About the Author
Sally Eichhorst
Zain Omarjee writes like someone who has survived the long night and chosen to stay awake inside it. There is nothing ornamental about his voice; it is intimate, searching, and unflinchingly honest. Omarjee belongs to a mixed-race family of teachers and white-collar employees who do not treat spirituality, psychology, and memory as separate disciplines, but as rooms in the same house—rooms he walks through barefoot, inviting the reader to follow. He was born and raised in Johannesburg, South Africa. Earning an Honours degree in the Bachelor of Arts stream.
What distinguishes him is not merely vulnerability, but discipline: the discipline to sit with paradox, to refuse easy answers, and to let grief, faith, science, and art speak to one another without hierarchy. His prose carries the weight of lived experience—loss, devotion, rage, tenderness—yet it is tempered by reflection rather than spectacle. Omarjee does not write to be seen; he writes to understand, and in doing so, allows the reader to understand themselves a little more clearly. A lecturer and traditional artist, Omarjee released his first short story, “In The Ghost Garden”, in 2025. Now with the release of his debut novel, Omarjee is deeply attuned to the inner life, treating language as both prayer and architecture.
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