​In the near future, silence is survival.

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Eira lives with her son, mother and husband in an Allocation Center—one of many government compounds designed to house and monitor the “non-essential.” The rules are simple: be quiet, stay useful, don’t ask questions. But when her son Caelan begins to push against that silence, Eira must decide whether to protect him by conforming harder—or risk everything by letting him speak.

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Told in a quiet, literary voice with sharp emotional clarity, Obsolvance unfolds in concrete stairwells and shuttered windows, where grief isn’t a crisis—it’s the atmosphere. This is not a revolution story. It is a survival story. A mother’s story. A study in slow unraveling.

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Perfect for readers who loved the haunting stillness of Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven, the generational tension of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go, and the quiet dystopia of The Unit by Ninni Holmqvist.