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I'm The Same
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Publisher: Ungurait House
Published: Sep 23 2025
Pages: 274
Weight: 0.64
Height: 0.68 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
In the mist-veiled forests of the Pacific Northwest, Kodak Palin arrives hoping to disappear-into the trees, into his writing, into a version of himself not shaped by pain. He's left the weight of his Southern past behind, trading trauma for the promise of a prestigious fellowship in the coastal town of Alnwick, Oregon. What he doesn't expect is Quinn Condor: elusive, guarded, magnetic-and the heir to the family that sponsors Kodak's new beginning.
As their bond deepens, Kodak is forced to confront the ache of belonging and the complexity of being biracial in spaces built to erase nuance. Just as he begins to believe in the possibility of healing, disaster strikes. A massive earthquake and tsunami fracture the coast-and everything Kodak has rebuilt is ripped from him.
In the aftermath, survival is no longer metaphor. Kodak must journey through wreckage both literal and emotional, desperate to find the one person who taught him that love could be real.
Told in lyrical, unflinching prose, I'm The Same is a haunting, intimate portrait of identity, memory, and the invisible wars we wage to stay alive. A debut of quiet power and disarming honesty, James Ungurait's novel refuses easy resolution-and leaves you changed.
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