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The Names We Kept
Paperback
Historical FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 6 2026
Pages: 216
Weight: 0.59
Height: 0.54 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Some names are not lost because they are found.
They survive because someone refuses to stop speaking them.
In 1948, ten-year-old Aldona watches her older brother leave home to warn someone in danger. He does not return. The family is told he will be questioned, but no explanation follows-only years of silence, rumor, and waiting.
As Soviet rule reshapes life in rural Lithuania, Aldona grows into a woman, marries, and raises a daughter beneath the same roof where Jonas's absence has never left. A cup remains turned upside down. A board is saved. A name is carried carefully through work, hunger, fear, and the long passage of time.
When Lithuania begins to reclaim its freedom, Aldona and her family face the question they have avoided for forty-two years: how do you honor someone whose fate you may never know?
The Names We Kept is a restrained, deeply human novel of family, memory, perseverance, and the quiet courage to keep a name alive.
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