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The Child-Thorn: A Memoir in Verse
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Publisher Price: $20.00
Publisher: Holly Scarpignato
Published: Aug 21 2026
Pages: 84
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.22 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The Child-Thorn is a memoir written in verse, using the recurring image of a thorn and vine to explore what it means to survive something that leaves no visible mark. Through spare, poetic language, Holly Scarpignato traces the quiet adaptations we make to endure pain, and the slow, difficult process of choosing what we will no longer carry. This is not a story with a clean resolution. It does not promise that everything can be undone. But it offers this: proof that survival was never weakness, and that naming what hurt us is its own kind of strength. For readers who see themselves in these pages, this book says plainly: you are still here, and that matters.
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