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All the Pain We Endure
Hardcover
General FictionLiterary Fiction
ISBN13: 9780996131162
Publisher: 1455 Books
Published: Nov 12 2026
Pages: 228
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Melanie S. Hatter's All the Pain We Endure follows Raebelle Rae Johnson, a biracial massage therapist in Washington, D.C., whose unusual ability to glimpse the pain carried by others has made her acutely aware of the wounds people hide-and determined to keep her own buried.
Still haunted by a volatile relationship with her father and wary of the vulnerability intimacy demands, Rae has learned to protect herself by keeping others at a distance. But when she meets Kai, a martial artist carrying wounds and secrets of his own, their growing connection begins to challenge Rae's assumptions about love, strength, family, and what it means to truly know another person.
As their relationship deepens, Rae is forced to reckon with a past that refuses to remain safely contained. Family tensions, buried trauma, and generations of racial pain converge, revealing how profoundly the injuries of one generation can shape the lives of the next-and how difficult it can be to distinguish the pain we inherit from the pain we choose to carry.
At once an intimate love story and a searching exploration of family, race, trauma, identity, and healing, All the Pain We Endure asks whether confronting the past can free us from repeating it-and what it takes to break cycles of pain, risk vulnerability, and believe ourselves worthy of love.
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