This story is for anyone who's ever reopened the door to their past — not seeking forgiveness, but demanding the truth.
Told in raw, first-person present, this novel follows Eve, a sharp-tongued, emotionally scorched narrator navigating generational silence, institutional neglect, and the violent collapse of everything she once held sacred. Her voice is fierce, darkly witty, and unflinching — storytelling as survival, confession, and confrontation. This is fiction as reckoning, a narrative that refuses to flinch, shaping darkness into symmetry and memory into power.
For Young Readers
A warm, funny, and surprisingly wise picture book that helps children understand identity, kindness, and the courage it takes to just be yourself — feathers, bones, and all.
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