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Chapters · 67
Chapter 1
The Woman Who Answered
Chapter 2
A Hand Divided
Chapter 3
The First Morning
Chapter 4
What a Name Could Buy
Chapter 5
Marise's Window
Chapter 6
A Man at the Hinge
Chapter 7
The Kept Name
Chapter 8
The Space Beside the Name
Chapter 9
Seven Years
Chapter 10
The Wrong Daughter
Chapter 11
Two Women at the Water
Chapter 12
The Child Who Was Herself
Chapter 13
A Voice on Paper
Chapter 14
The Fever Season
Chapter 15
A Name with No Birth
Chapter 16
Julien's Father
Chapter 17
The Living Madeleine
Chapter 18
The Counting Room
Chapter 19
The Page They Changed
Chapter 20
What the Blood Knew
Chapter 21
The Room That Wasn't Hers
Chapter 22
Ana
Chapter 23
The Volunteer
Chapter 24
The Girl Who Would Not Sleep
Chapter 25
A House in Daylight
Chapter 26
The Boy They Priced
Chapter 27
The Other Route
Chapter 28
The Taste of Iron
Chapter 29
When the Boy Fell
Chapter 30
What She Could Not Carry
Chapter 31
The Man They Killed
Chapter 32
The Face at the Shelter
Chapter 33
The Daughter Who Stayed
Chapter 34
A Historian's Answer
Chapter 35
Luzia at the Door
Chapter 36
The Thing That Had No Mother
Chapter 37
A Place to Put the Living
Chapter 38
Agathe's Cup
Chapter 39
What Rose Learned
Chapter 40
The Part Isabel Owed
Chapter 41
The Empty Chair at Dinner
Chapter 42
Basile's Hands
Chapter 43
August
Chapter 44
The Work of the Women
Chapter 45
The Children Who Heard
Chapter 46
The Freedom Read Aloud
Chapter 47
The Daughter's Name
Chapter 48
A Daughter Without a Map
Chapter 49
Outside the Window
Chapter 50
Isabel's Last Question
Chapter 51
A House Full of Weather
Chapter 52
The Voice Beneath the Rain
Chapter 53
The Open Door
Chapter 54
After the Wind
Chapter 55
The Ships in the Bay
Chapter 56
News from Another Island
Chapter 57
The Woman at the Bedside
Chapter 58
The Country's Name
Chapter 59
An Account Without a Bargain
Chapter 60
What He Could Not Keep
Chapter 61
Pauline's Daughter
Chapter 62
The Page Colette Kept
Chapter 63
The Other Recordings
Chapter 64
What Followed Freedom
Chapter 65
The Family That Came Anyway
Chapter 66
Her Own Bed
Chapter 67
What They Carried