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Charlie St. George is thirteen years old when his world begins to change.
As his mother's illness slowly reshapes the life he has always known, he clings to the little things that still bring light into their home: Wednesday afternoons in the kitchen, homemade Granola Camp Cookies, shared silences, and the quiet hope that love can somehow make everything better.
Over the course of a single year, Charlie learns that growing up rarely happens all at once. It happens in small moments. In unexpected friendships. In first kisses. In difficult goodbyes. In discovering that sometimes the greatest comfort isn't finding the right words-but simply being there.
Tender, hopeful, and quietly heartfelt, Before I Found Liberty is a coming-of-age story about grief, kindness, first love, and learning to carry the people we lose with us instead of leaving them behind.
Because some journeys don't begin with finding a place.
They begin with finding yourself.