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It Holds Us
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ISBN13: 9798289531230
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 25 2025
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.53
Height: 0.55 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 25 2025
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.53
Height: 0.55 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Noah has spent years outrunning memory.
But when a cross-country train ride to see his dying father strands him in unfamiliar towns and uncomfortable truths, the past begins to bleed through-one motel room, one conversation, one scar at a time.
Haunted by the absence of his mother, the presence of his father, and the echo of a fragile love he doesn't know how to hold, Noah finds himself unraveling in quiet, intimate moments that refuse to stay buried.
But when a cross-country train ride to see his dying father strands him in unfamiliar towns and uncomfortable truths, the past begins to bleed through-one motel room, one conversation, one scar at a time.
Haunted by the absence of his mother, the presence of his father, and the echo of a fragile love he doesn't know how to hold, Noah finds himself unraveling in quiet, intimate moments that refuse to stay buried.
Part pilgrimage, part dissection of grief, this is a story of childhood trauma and the long-buried secrets of rural families-the kind that rot beneath silence and sun-scorched land. Told in sharp, aching prose, It Holds Us is a portrait of decay and longing-a story about the things we inherit, the wounds we carry, and the quiet, brutal ways we try to make sense of it all.
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