What The Quiet Knew

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>What The Quiet Knew is a haunting coming-of-age novel about the moments that shape us long before we understand them. Élira grows up in a home where love and fear live side by side - where her mother's chronic illness can turn tenderness into chaos without warning and where a child learns to become the caretaker long before she learns who she is. Told in poetic intimate fragments this literary psychological fiction explores the invisible scars of girlhood the weight of secrets carried in silence and what it means to survive a childhood that was never simple.  For readers who love heart-wrenching family stories emotional healing arcs and character-driven literary fiction this is a novel that lingers long after the final page. </span></p><p></p>