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The Unknown Road
Hardcover
Publisher: Boothbrand & Co.
Published: Apr 21 2026
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.94
Height: 0.63 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
The Unknown Road follows Virginia, a sharp-tongued, soft-hearted overachiever who learns early how to survive by holding everything together-even as her world is falling apart. At sixteen, she is pushed out of the only home she has ever known, carrying more than a suitcase: the weight of addiction, silence, and family unraveling. She becomes the keeper of what no one names-the fixer, the one who doesn't break, at least not where anyone can see.
Told through fragments of memory and moments that refuse to stay buried, Virginia's story moves between past and present as the forces that shaped her are slowly revealed. Each step forward pulls something old into the light: the love that hurt, the loyalty that cost too much, and the versions of herself she had to abandon to survive.
Beneath it all is something persistent and alive-a hunger for beauty, movement, and a life larger than survival. For connection that doesn't require disappearance.
As she stands at the edge of everything she has known, Virginia faces an impossible choice: remain within the life she inherited, or leave and risk becoming someone she does not yet recognize.
This is not a clean story. It is jagged, tender, and unflinching-a coming-of-age carved from chaos, a quiet rebellion, and a return.
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