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When a video of Libby “cheating” on her boyfriend, Dan, goes viral, her whole village turns against her. School friends become bullies, leaving rotten eggs in her locker, and the only person who will talk to her is Neha, the new girl everyone ignores. But Dan is oblivious to the drama unfolding around him. He’s lying in a coma in hospital and worries that if he doesn’t wake up soon the secret he’s been carrying around for years will be lost along with him.

Echoes of Your Silence is a raw and redemptive memoir about growing up in a house full of unspoken pain. Crystal Allen shares her journey through emotional neglect, generational silence, and the desperate search for love in all the wrong places. Born to a white mother from rural West Virginia and a Black father from Dunbar, West Virginia who was physically present but emotionally absent, Crystal’s story reveals what happens when a young girl goes looking for the love her father never gave her—and finds herself in a prison cell because of it.