Chosen By The Don
The publication happened quietly, the way she had wanted — no grand launch event, no interview circuit she wasn't ready for, just the book becoming available and finding its way to people.
The publisher had understood what they had and had respected Sofia's instinct about how to release it, and the result was that The Returning arrived in the world not with noise but with the particular quiet authority of something that didn't need announcing.
The first review appeared online three days after publication. I read it in the kitchen before anyone else was up, my coffee getting cold beside me.
The reviewer wrote that it was the most precise account of the experience of coming back they had ever