Save me an orange

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Hayley Grace’s debut poetry collection traces the roots of pain and struggle through memories of growing up, then sets those wounds beside the small pleasures that make endurance possible. The poems move between past experience and brief, ordinary moments of joy, examining how love can coexist with hurt and how self-acceptance can emerge from honest attention to both. Rather than presenting survival as a single triumph, the collection treats choosing to live as a continuing, intimate act. Its personal focus gives the book the shape of an emotional reckoning, gathering sorrow, tenderness, and hope around the difficult work of learning to remain present in one’s own life.

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