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The Slow Surrender: Ten Men, One Week, One Town
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ISBN13: 9798189612114
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 28 2026
Pages: 86
Weight: 0.21
Height: 0.18 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 28 2026
Pages: 86
Weight: 0.21
Height: 0.18 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Ten men. One fictional town in the Fraser Valley. One ordinary week. The Slow Surrender follows ten different men through the same seven days: the Sunday dread, the drive home that takes twenty extra minutes for no reason anyone asks about, the layoff that quietly takes more than the paycheck, the Friday that never actually pauses. Each story stands alone. But look closely and a man who's barely a presence in one story, a neighbor, a coworker, a stranger at a gas station, turns out to be carrying the whole weight of the next one. No one in this book has a breakdown. No one gets fixed. What they get is a single hour, or a single honest sentence, that changes almost nothing and somehow changes everything. For anyone who has ever said I'm fine and meant something else entirely.
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