THE RIVER THAT CARRIED SECRETS: A Novel of Small-Town Affective Realism

By Nelson Baía

VI - THE RIVER THAT CARRIED SECRETS
A flood thirty-two years earlier left marks that Vale das Mangueiras learned to turn into certainties. As he revisits a past he avoided for decades, Leandro finds in Marta an ally in the search for what truly happened along the riverbanks - and discovers that a town's memory does not always preserve events as they were actually lived. Amid testimony, old guilt, secrets, and gestures of repair, they will both come to understand that even the past can find a different direction when someone finally decides to listen to it.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HFP35F35
• ISBN13: 9798193476412
• Release Date: August 2026
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 0.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.3" x 6.0"