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The Quiet Sister
Paperback
General FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $16.99
ISBN13: 9781067954147
Publisher: Melissa Brace
Published: Oct 2 2026
Pages: 174
Weight: 0.37
Height: 0.44 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
When Mara receives the news that her older sister, Leah, is dead, she is left with grief, questions, and a relationship that was never fully understood.
Leah had always been the difficult one. Sharp, guarded, and fiercely protective, she carried an intensity Mara never quite knew how to reach. After her death, Mara discovers that Leah had been attending a support group called Healing Together, where she had shared parts of her life that Mara knew nothing about.
Then Mara receives an envelope Leah left behind.
Inside is a letter that changes the way Mara remembers her sister.
Drawn into the support group Leah once attended, Mara begins listening to stories of grief, trauma, family, and survival. As she learns more about Leah, memories of their childhood begin to surface, forcing Mara to reconsider the roles their family had given them and the silence that shaped both sisters.
Leah was not the person Mara thought she was. But neither was Mara.
As the past becomes harder to ignore, Mara must confront the things she has spent years avoiding and find the courage to finally speak for herself.
The Quiet Sister is an emotional story about sisters, grief, family secrets, trauma, and the complicated truths that remain after someone is gone. It explores the ways people protect one another, the damage silence can cause, and what it means to begin finding your own voice.
Sometimes understanding the person you lost means finally facing the parts of yourself you left behind.
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