It Holds Us

By Samantha Gallant

Noah has spent years outrunning memory.
But when a cross-country train ride to see his dying father strands him in unfamiliar towns and uncomfortable truths, the past begins to bleed through-one motel room, one conversation, one scar at a time.
Haunted by the absence of his mother, the presence of his father, and the echo of a fragile love he doesn't know how to hold, Noah finds himself unraveling in quiet, intimate moments that refuse to stay buried.
Part pilgrimage, part dissection of grief, this is a story of childhood trauma and the long-buried secrets of rural families-the kind that rot beneath silence and sun-scorched land. Told in sharp, aching prose, It Holds Us is a portrait of decay and longing-a story about the things we inherit, the wounds we carry, and the quiet, brutal ways we try to make sense of it all.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FG5PBGJC
• ISBN13: 9798289531230
• Release Date: June 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 8.0"