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My Twenties
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 27 2025
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.99
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
She was the strong one. Until she broke.
Emma is twenty-one. She doesn't go to college, doesn't take selfies at brunch.
She stays home - caring for a mother with heart failure and a grandmother fading into dementia.
But as the women around her fade, Emma begins to disappear too.
My Twenties is a raw, lyrical coming-of-age novel about what happens when a girl becomes a woman by holding others - and no one holds her back.
Told in quiet, poetic prose, this debut explores:
- The emotional cost of caregiving in early adulthood
- Silence between mothers and daughters
- Intergenerational trauma, memory, and music
- The thin line between duty and love
For readers who love:
- Emotionally rich women's fiction & literary psychological fiction
- Stories of mental health, grief, and invisible strength
- Ocean Vuong, Celeste Ng, Delia Owens
What if staying - not running - was the bravest thing you could do?
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