Description
Eleanor Mayers looks fine. She smiles. She studies hard. She keeps quiet. She plays the role perfectly. But inside? She's unraveling. Haunted by a grief no one talks about and a loneliness no one sees, Eleanor walks through life carrying the weight of her silence. With a mother who's barely holding on, classmates who only know her mask, and a past she never unpacked, her mind becomes the one place she can't escape. Then comes therapy. One question. One moment. One woman who doesn't flinch at the silence. As Eleanor's sessions with Ms. Michaels slowly crack open everything she's buried, she begins to ask herself the question that's been screaming inside for years: What's wrong with me? A raw, poetic journey into the quiet chaos of mental illness, grief, identity, and the desperate desire to be seen. For readers who've ever smiled through pain, felt invisible in a crowd, or wished someone would just ask, "Are you really okay?" Because sometimes the heaviest things we carry are the ones no one can see.
CHAPTER ONE
