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The Weight I Carry
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 21 2025
Pages: 182
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.39 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Fourteen-year-old Tessa doesn't know when things started to fall apart-she just knows she's angry all the time. At school. At home. At herself. She's stuck in a body she can't stand, surrounded by people who don't understand the storm building inside her. One wrong look, one offhand comment, one more moment of silence-and she breaks.
Sent from facility to facility, Tessa learns how to survive: stay quiet, follow the rules, don't let anyone in. But the more she disappears to keep the peace, the more she loses the parts of herself worth holding on to.
Told in raw, intimate detail, The Weight I Carry is a powerful story about trauma, isolation, and the slow, painful journey toward healing. Through treatment centers, group homes, locked doors, and unwelcome truths, Tessa begins to confront the weight she's carried all her life-and dares to believe she might be more than the pieces left behind.
A gripping, emotional coming-of-age novel for readers who know what it means to feel too much-and still keep going.
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