Birthday girl
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Lilac doesn't cry. She doesn't lose her temper. She doesn't let herself feel much of anything-not since her mother taught her how to survive by shutting everything out. Now, at twenty-one, Lilac works as a hairdresser in a quiet corner of the city, cutting and coloring other people's lives while keeping her own at arm's length. Two years after her mother's suicide and four years after moving in with her best friend Finn's family, Lilac is just trying to stay steady.
But on the anniversary of her birth, and of everything she's learned to forget. Mliemories begin to surface, and the walls she built to protect herself start to shift. With Finn as her quiet anchor, Lilac must decide if she's ready to start feeling again, or if being "fine" is all she'll ever let herself be.
A quiet, emotional coming-of-age story about grief, found family, and the slow, difficult work of healing.
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