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No Neutral Ground
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General FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $12.99
Publisher: Nlc
Published: Mar 6 2026
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.44
Height: 0.34 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
No Neutral Ground is a short literary novel about the quiet moments where loyalty, ambition, and identity collide-and the cost of choosing to stand still.
Jamal is moving forward.
At work, he's earning responsibility. In love, he's learning how presence matters more than promises. But where he comes from still calls him-through old friendships, familiar streets, and obligations that never asked permission to linger.
As Jamal tries to balance his future with the gravity of his past, he's forced to confront an uncomfortable truth: some relationships don't end with conflict-they end when one person stops carrying what was never theirs to begin with.
Set between unnamed neighborhoods known only as the Heights and the Hills, No Neutral Ground resists easy geography in favor of emotional terrain. The novel explores masculinity without bravado, community without nostalgia, and growth without triumph. There are no villains here-only people making choices under pressure, and the silence that follows those choices.
Written in spare, restrained prose, No Neutral Ground examines what it means to show up, to step back, and to accept that not every door closes loudly. Some simply stop opening.
This is a story for readers drawn to interior tension, moral ambiguity, and the spaces between words-where staying can be just as dangerous as leaving
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