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The Weight of Quiet Rooms

A Novel

Every house keeps what the family agreed to forget.

Three siblings return to the shuttered family home and find that the silence they inherited has a shape, a weight, and a name.

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When their mother dies without warning, the Aldana siblings come back to a house none of them has entered in eleven years. They arrive to divide what is left. They stay because the house will not let them leave the way they came.

Told across a single humid week, The Weight of Quiet Rooms moves between the three of them — Dorotea, who never left the province; Emil, who left and became someone unrecognizable; and Nena, the youngest, who remembers a version of that summer no one else will confirm.

It is a novel about the arithmetic of family silence: what it costs to keep a secret, what it costs to set it down, and who is left holding the difference.

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A patient, devastating book. Vane understands that the loudest thing in a family is often the sentence no one finishes.
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About the author

Marisol Vane

SJF Ventures LLC author

Marisol Vane writes about families, inheritance, and the provinces she grew up in. Her short fiction has appeared in regional anthologies for over a decade. The Weight of Quiet Rooms is her first novel.

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