Librería Samer Atenea
Kálamo Books
Librería Elías (Asturias)
Librería Kolima (Madrid)
Librería Proteo (Málaga)
Bob doesn’t speak. He came to the orphan registry silent and stayed that way - a child who feels too much and says nothing, passed over by a system with no room for him.The caretaker assigned to him was supposed to rotate through. Instead, he stayed.What I Carried is the story of the years that followed: two people building a language out of patterns and presence, out of the small daily work of paying attention when no one else will. It is about the families we choose, the ones we carry, and what remains when the person you held the longest is finally gone.Spare, unflinching, and quietly devastating, Lee S. Roberts’ debut is a novel about care as devotion - and about how the way we show up becomes who we are.
