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The Name That Echoes, A Novel of Becoming
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ISBN13: 9798904197520
Publisher: Spines
Published: Jun 24 2026
Pages: 264
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.75 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Publisher: Spines
Published: Jun 24 2026
Pages: 264
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.75 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
He was seven years old when the world he was born into vanished.
Raised in Comfortville, a community engineered for order, comfort, and quiet sufficiency, Alexander Terver Zever has grown up within carefully maintained boundaries and unquestioned rules. Life there is stable. Predictable. Good, at least on the surface.
But something in him resists the ease of it. A name he cannot place. Fragments of memory that do not belong. A persistent sense that the life assigned to him is smaller than the one he was meant to live.
When Alexander begins to ask questions Comfortville was never built to answer, he is drawn toward a truth more unsettling than he imagined: that comfort can conceal captivity, and that a life shaped for him by others may have come at the cost of freedom, identity, and inheritance.
The Name That Echoes is a work of literary fiction with dystopian undertones, exploring identity, memory, inheritance, and the courage it takes to recover what time and forgetting could not erase.
Raised in Comfortville, a community engineered for order, comfort, and quiet sufficiency, Alexander Terver Zever has grown up within carefully maintained boundaries and unquestioned rules. Life there is stable. Predictable. Good, at least on the surface.
But something in him resists the ease of it. A name he cannot place. Fragments of memory that do not belong. A persistent sense that the life assigned to him is smaller than the one he was meant to live.
When Alexander begins to ask questions Comfortville was never built to answer, he is drawn toward a truth more unsettling than he imagined: that comfort can conceal captivity, and that a life shaped for him by others may have come at the cost of freedom, identity, and inheritance.
The Name That Echoes is a work of literary fiction with dystopian undertones, exploring identity, memory, inheritance, and the courage it takes to recover what time and forgetting could not erase.
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