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The Honest City
Paperback
Science FictionGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 16 2026
Pages: 118
Weight: 0.37
Height: 0.28 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In the quiet northern city of North Aram, something small begins to change.
No law is passed. No illness spreads. No voice announces what is happening.
And yet, one by one, the people of the city discover they can no longer speak what they know to be untrue.
At first the change feels like exposure-conversations falter, comforts disappear, and ordinary life grows strangely fragile. But as days pass, families, strangers, lovers, and children begin to reshape the ways they care for one another, learning what remains when reassurance, politeness, and easy words fall away.
Told through intimate stories, fragments of testimony, and quiet moments of human connection, *The Honest City* is a lyrical and deeply moving novel about truth, love, and the fragile mercy of being human.
In a world where nothing false can be spoken, one question remains:
What, in the end, is kindness?
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