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Arben's Vent
Hardcover
Mystery & ThrillerGeneral Fiction
Publisher Price: $28.99
Publisher: 319 Press LLC
Published: Aug 22 2025
Pages: 260
Weight: 0.96
Height: 0.63 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
After a suicide attempt, Arben Davis finds himself (in)voluntarily committed to a psychiatric facility-haunted by voices he's heard since childhood and reluctant to speak of them.Is it madness, trauma, or something more elusive? As Arben is forced to confront his past, he revisits a childhood marked by neglect, emotional abuse, and isolation-ostracized by peers and dismissed by the very people meant to protect him.A gifted musician with a fractured mind, Arben teeters on the edge of surrender. If the doctors can't uncover the truth behind his torment, he may spend the rest of his life institutionalized. But after years of silence and struggle, Arben isn't sure he has the strength to keep fighting.
Arben grew up in the wreckage of two collapsed stars-his father, a drug dealer cloaked in volatility, and his mother, absorbed in mirrors that never reflected her son. Their violence was sporadic, but it was their absence, the hollow silence of indifference, that carved him deepest. Voices swarm his head, noise becomes his shadow, and classmates treat him like a myth better erased. He moves through life alone. The piano is his only portal, guided by a teacher who sees beyond the damage. Yet even that dream feels distant, flickering like candlelight in a storm. Every step forward is a stumble, every triumph eclipsed. And then tragedy strikes-threatening to unravel him completely.
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