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Child of The Circle
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Publisher: Rickroadway
Published: Jan 5 2026
Pages: 76
Weight: 0.22
Height: 0.18 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Raised within an isolated, boundaryless community shaped by a charismatic leader, a quiet child grows up learning that safety comes not from rules, but from obedience, silence, and belonging. Love is public, loyalty is rewarded, and doubt is quietly erased. In a world without walls, the most powerful restraints are invisible.
When the child is abruptly removed, the outside world feels overwhelming-loud, structured, and unfamiliar. Adults ask questions that don't yet have language. Choices feel dangerous. Freedom feels like exposure. As time passes, memory returns in fragments, revealing patterns of control, internalized fear, and a voice that still monitors every thought.
Child of the Circle is a restrained, psychological coming-of-age novel about growing up inside coercive influence and learning-slowly, imperfectly-how to live without it. Told through reflective dual timelines, the novel explores how belief is shaped, how identity survives indoctrination, and how healing is less about forgetting the past than reclaiming ownership of one's own voice.
Quiet, unsettling, and deeply human, Child of the Circle examines the subtle mechanisms of control-and the long, patient work of becoming free.
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