I Participated

di Anita Wake (Autore)

Anita Wake, 2026

This is not a novel about winning. It is a novel about stopping. Lisa has spent fifteen years performing—translating silence, laughing at jokes that aren't funny, making herself small in rooms where men take up all the air. She has a marriage that feels like a waiting room, a boss whose stare lasts one second too long, and a solar plexus that has been clenched for so long she forgot what it feels like to breathe. This is a book about the weight of being "too sensitive." About the exhaustion of professional politeness. About the men who don't see themselves as predators and the women who learn to carry them anyway. It is about marriage as absence, work as performance, and the slow, unglamorous work of remembering who you were before you learned to perform. This is a book for anyone who has ever laughed when they didn't want to. Who has ever said "fine" when they meant something else. Who has ever sat in a car, watching a garage light flicker, wondering what happens when you finally stop carrying everything alone. It is a quiet novel. A patient one. And by the end, it has become something else entirely: a love letter to the women who refuse to fall.

• Autore: Anita Wake
• Editore: Anita Wake
• Formato: EPUB2 con DRMFREE
• Lingua: Inglese
• Cloud: Sì Scopri di più
• Compatibilità: Tutti i dispositivi (eccetto Kindle)
• Layout: Reflowable
• EAN: 9798235474130