AFTERLIGHT: Some Rooms Forgets You But Your Heart Remembers

<p>Scarlett begins in a borrowed room young enough to believe invisibility is safety. She moves through others&mdash;rooms of stories of mirrors of silence of letters unsent&mdash;each one asking her a different question about voice and ownership.</p><p>In the hall where an archive burns she learns how fragile words can be. In the ledger where stolen lines are returned she learns repair. In the room of mirrors she learns what breaking can free. And at last she chooses to build a room with her own name on the plaque.</p><p>Afterlight is a novel told in rooms&mdash;each one a metaphor each one a stage in the long trembling work of becoming visible. Tender fierce and luminous it asks what it means to inherit silence and what it costs to turn silence into speech.</p>