Under the Rug: Letters to Mom and Dad

By Kiera Ives

Under the Rug: Letters to Mom and Dad is a deeply honest collection of unsent letters exploring the complicated reality of growing up with an unpredictable father and an emotionally absent mother. Written with vulnerable prose, these letters navigate the space between love and resentment, loyalty and self-preservation, giving voice to what so many daughters carry in silence.

This collection explores what it means to witness a marriage built on silence and mutual misery, to carry secrets too heavy for a child, to learn that setting boundaries feels like betrayal. The writing confronts the inheritance of dysfunction, the guilt of distance, the exhausting work of unlearning damage, and the grief of mourning parents who are still alive but were never truly present.

This is a book for anyone trying to make sense of a childhood they are still recovering from, for daughters who loved parents who could not love them back properly, for those learning that healing does not require forgiveness.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0G3WPD8JP
• ISBN13: 9798275926293
• Release Date: November 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.3" x 8.0"