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Only Now We Are
Paperback
General FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher: Nathan Kato-Wallace
Published: Aug 26 2025
Pages: 378
Weight: 1.11
Height: 0.84 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The most dangerous truth is the one we choose.
* 5-star review from Reader Views
* Finalist, Reviewers Choice Awards (General Fiction)
After being let go from his job, a young man finds himself untethered - adrift in a world of empty routines, performative success, and quiet isolation. Searching for meaning, he is drawn into a circle of like-minded outsiders who share his growing suspicion that the world they've inherited is an illusion.
When protest and advocacy fail, their late-night conversations about truth, identity, and meaning take on a new urgency. What starts as a shared search for clarity evolves into something far more powerful: a movement built on the idea that reality is not something we inherit, but something we create.
When the group sets out to build a new society, belief soon hardens into doctrine and doctrine into control. As the boundaries between justice and tyranny begin to dissolve, the group discovers the cost of shaping reality may be far greater than anyone imagined.
Blending sharp social observation with psychological intensity, Only Now We Are explores:
- The search for meaning in modern life
- The fragile nature of truth
- The manipulation of beliefs in uncertain times
- The blurry line between freedom and chaos
For fans of literary fiction that grapples with big ideas, this is a provocative and deeply human story about what happens when one man's search for meaning becomes society's imperative.
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