The Mask: What We Hide to Survive
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 12 2025
Pages: 348
Weight: 0.89
Height: 0.72 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
The Mask
A Novel by Evan Tanami
Grief doesn't follow rules. It lingers. It transforms. And sometimes, it wears a face.
After losing his girlfriend Rachel in a tragedy he never saw coming, Jack's world falls silent. Numb. Unrecognizable. Surrounded by memories that cut like glass and voices urging him to move on, he clings to guilt like armor-convinced he failed her, convinced he doesn't deserve healing.
Then he meets Alice.
She isn't a cure. She's not a replacement. But she's patient, kind, and unafraid to sit with Jack in the silence he's too scared to fill. Together, they begin to uncover something Jack thought he'd buried for good: the courage to keep living.
The Mask is a story of quiet heartbreak and louder hope. A deeply emotional portrait of loss, love, and the invisible threads that connect us long after goodbye. Told with poetic sensitivity and piercing honesty, this debut novel is for anyone learning to breathe again after the world breaks.
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