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Burn Me Whole
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General FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $24.99
Publisher: Bkr Imprint
Published: Jul 17 2025
Pages: 404
Weight: 1.19
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Bruce is no stranger to survival - but after years of doing everything right, he's left staring at a life that feels nothing like his own. The marriage has ended. The career that once defined him has vanished. His children are growing up without him to guide them. And the man in the mirror is a stranger wearing his face.
So he does the only thing that makes sense: he leaves. With nothing but a carry-on and a heart heavy with questions, Bruce boards a flight to Jamaica - not to reinvent himself, but to stop pretending he knows who he is at all.
What begins as an escape quickly becomes a reckoning. On the island's sun-drenched edges, Bruce is confronted by everything he's been taught about strength, fatherhood, desire, and Black masculinity. Every silence he's swallowed, every choice he's justified, every truth he's buried - it all rises to the surface. Through unexpected connections, moments of raw intimacy, and the uncomfortable honesty of solitude, he's forced to look at the man he's been and decide who he's still willing to become.
Burn Me Whole is a deeply introspective work of Black literary fiction-an unflinching exploration of identity, vulnerability, and the messy, nonlinear journey toward wholeness. Told in immersive, voice-driven prose, it's a story about what happens when we stop running from ourselves... and stand still long enough to meet the truth.
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