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Beautiful Joy (Large Print Edition)
Paperback
Publisher Price: $17.99
ISBN13: 9781736574287
Publisher: Vincent James
Published: Mar 26 2023
Pages: 392
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A girl escapes into a world that loves her-until it asks her to disappear.
Joy has always felt invisible. At school, at home, and even in her own reflection, she learns early that being different means being overlooked, or quietly pushed aside.
When loneliness and cruelty become too heavy to bear, Joy retreats into a vivid inner world filled with animal companions, castles, mirrors, and a version of herself who finally feels beautiful and understood. In this world, she belongs.
But safety has a cost.
As Joy retreats further into this alternate reality, the line between comfort and control begins to blur. The same world that protects her begins to demand surrender of her doubts, her resistance, and eventually her sense of self.
Beautiful Joy is an emotionally intimate work of psychological and philosophical fiction about loneliness, identity, and the search for inner beauty. Blending psychological realism with surreal fantasy, it explores what it means to survive without disappearing, and whether escape is ever truly free.
A stand-alone novel for readers who appreciate introspective coming-of-age stories, symbolic fantasy, and literary fiction that lingers long after the final page.
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