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Life of Yamara: The Cost of Being Seen
Paperback
Biographies GeneralMetaphysical GeneralBlack American Studies
Publisher Price: $11.99
ISBN13: 9788368391312
Publisher: Studiomorefolio
Published: Jul 13 2025
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.27 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
She wanted the whole world to see her. She never asked what being seen would cost.
Yamara Grand grows up in a small house by the sea in Kingston, a girl with no camera and a notebook full of things she refuses to let disappear. She has one quiet promise, underlined twice on a clean page: one day she will show the world where she comes from, through her own eyes.
A one-way ticket takes her to Miami. A single photograph takes her everywhere else.
When one honest image goes viral, Yamara is lifted out of an invisible life and into a bright one - followers, brands, a face that sells. But somewhere between the first shoot and the thousandth post, the smooth, perfect version of herself starts to crowd out the real one. And the day an old friend asks when did you leave?, Yamara cannot find the answer, because she was never present for her own disappearance.
Life of Yamara is a luminous, unflinching novel about ambition and authenticity in the age of the screen - about the difference between being watched and being known, between keeping a thing and selling it. It is the story of a woman who builds the exact life she dreamed of, loses herself inside it, and has to travel all the way home to find out who she was before the world started counting.
For readers of contemporary literary fiction about identity, fame, and the quiet cost of visibility.
A story about the one question every honest life eventually asks: am I doing this because it's true, or because it works?
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