When the Phone Rang

di DARRYL WAYNE TOWNSEND JR (Autore)

Polymath Portfolio Group, 2026

Maya Riley is walking across the stage at her high school graduation when her phone rings. The number is wrong — too many digits, strange characters she can't read. She silences it. It rings again. And again. She answers. On the other end: a girl named Ji-Yun, calling from inside North Korea on a smuggled phone hidden beneath a floor panel. The call was an accident. What comes next is not. Over one summer, the two girls build a friendship that should be impossible — conducted in stolen minutes, coded messages, and music sent across an ocean. Maya sends Beyoncé. Ji-Yun asks if it's God. Maya describes the sky. Ji-Yun says hers is always gray. But every message is a risk. Every signal can be traced. And as the connection deepens, both girls begin to pay the price — Maya in the friendships she's losing, the lies she's telling, and the secret that's consuming her ordinary life. Ji-Yun in the surveillance closing in, the detection vans on her street, and the shrinking window between the world she knows and the one she's heard through a cracked phone speaker. When the signal goes dark, Maya is left holding a thread she can't pull and can't release. And Ji-Yun must decide whether the voice on the other end of the line is worth walking into a river for. A novel about what it costs to hear someone — really hear them — across every distance the world can build.

• Autore: DARRYL WAYNE TOWNSEND JR
• Anno edizione: 2026
• Editore: Polymath Portfolio Group
• Formato: EPUB2 con DRMFREE
• Lingua: Inglese
• Compatibilità: Tutti i dispositivi (eccetto Kindle)
• Layout: Reflowable
• EAN: 9798233864476