Sarah Chen's book, titled The Silence Breakers: One Family's Fight Against a Fifteen-Year Conspiracy, released in the spring of Ivy's junior year, arriving in bookstores with a marketing push that caught even Ivy somewhat by surprise given the two years of careful, patient work that had gone into its careful construction.
"It's strange, seeing our whole story properly bound and printed," Marina said, holding an early advance copy Chen had sent personally, turning it over in her hands with visible, complicated emotion. "Fifteen years of silence, then this whole extraordinary journey, now permanently documented for anyone, anywhere, to read."
"How does it feel, reading it properly?"
"Emotional. Chen handled everything with genuine care, exactly as she promised. But reading our whole story
