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The Borders We Built
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Nov 25 2025
Pages: 342
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.71 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
In a quiet, ordinary town, fear grows louder than truth. Neighbors stop greeting, temples and churches become walls, and news doesn't inform- it divides. Hate isn't arriving from across oceans. It's growing quietly inside living rooms, whispers, online groups, forgotten hearts, and unidentified pain.
When rising tensions push the town to the edge of chaos, a last resort experiment is introduced: The Mirror Class - a weekly gathering where people sit face-to-face and must talk not about beliefs, religion, country, or politics-but their ordinary life stories. No debates, no arguing-just listening.
Inside the room:
A war veteran who secretly hates immigrants.
A refugee teacher hiding her real identity.
A widowed mother whose son was killed in a hate attack.
A young man unknowingly absorbed by extremist online propaganda.
A priest questioning his own faith.
A teenage girl raised to hate a religion she never even met.
At first, everyone comes to prove they're right, wronged, or righteous. But slowly, stories begin to reveal something dangerous:
Hate is not inherited from nations-
It's inherited from loneliness, shame, fear, and unhealed pain.
This is not a book about war, terrorism, politics, or headlines.
It's a book about living rooms, human hearts, and how the enemy isn't outside-it's the stories we never learned to understand.
No heroes. No villains.
Just people with untold stories, learning to see each other again.
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