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What the Silence Ate: "A Story of What Grows in the Quiet"
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Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Nov 10 2025
Pages: 74
Weight: 0.21
Height: 0.18 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
What the Silence Ate
By Chiranjit Chakraborty
In a quiet Indian village, a girl named Ira is born into a world that mistakes silence for peace.
Her father's indifference and her mother's wordless pain build walls around her childhood-walls she learns to live behind. But when trust turns to betrayal, and innocence is stolen under the guise of kindness, Ira discovers that silence doesn't just hide secrets... it consumes them.
As she grows, her search for love, belonging, and self-worth takes her from the stifling corners of her home to the chaotic pulse of the city. Yet no matter where she runs, the echoes of her past follow-each whisper a reminder of what silence can destroy.
What the Silence Ate is a haunting, deeply emotional debut novel that explores the fragile bond between mothers and daughters, the scars of abuse, and the quiet resilience of survival.
It is not just a story about pain-it's about the voices we bury, and the courage it takes to unearth them.
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