The Names We Bury

<p><strong>Some stories are buried to protect us. Others are buried to silence us. But all of them eventually rise.</strong></p><p>When fourteen-year-old Nia is sent to live with her grandmother in a quiet rural village she doesn't expect much certainly not to stumble upon a crumbling chapel hidden behind fig trees. Inside a wall of women's names is carved into stone some worn down others missing entirely.</p><p>As Nia begins to uncover the stories behind those names through ancestral dreams whispered songs and her grandmother's fading memories she's drawn into a history long buried: of women erased silenced and renamed.</p><p>In confronting her own family's secrets Nia finds the strength to name what was never meant to be spoken and to give voice to those the world tried to forget.</p><p><em>The Names We Bury</em> is a lyrical and haunting novel about legacy memory and the power of remembering out loud.</p>