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The Ballroom
Paperback
Science FictionGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction
ISBN13: 9781926716831
Publisher: 8th House Publishing
Published: May 22 2026
Pages: 228
Weight: 0.59
Height: 0.52 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
In a collapsing Montreal, survival has become a game.
Seventeen-year-old Bella and her father, Walter-a traumatized war veteran-live on the margins of a society unraveling under economic ruin and political fracture. Each day, they enter the ballroom: a repurposed relic of luxury where the desperate gather to compete in a strange and brutal ritual.
The rules are simple. Count the people. Win the jackpot.
Lose-and return to the cold.
As hunger tightens its grip and the past refuses to stay buried, Bella and Walter cling to one another in a world that offers no guarantees-only odds. Around them, lives intersect and fracture: the displaced, the broken, the forgotten. Each carrying their own quiet calculations of hope and despair.
But survival is more than numbers. And love, in a place like this, may be the most dangerous gamble of all.
The Ballroom is a haunting and deeply human portrait of resilience, dignity, and the fragile arithmetic of survival.
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