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Ayanna grew up learning not to speak. Not about what was done to her. Not about the silence that followed.
As a mixed-race girl in a white, upper-class family, she is treated as an anomaly; both too much and never enough. She is made to feel different, lesser, a blemish in their world. Even as a child, she she must fight twice as hard just to exist in their space.
As a child, Ayanna becomes prey in a place that should have been her sanctuary. The abuse she suffers is not just physical, but psychological; gaslighting, isolation, the slow and deliberate erosion of her self-worth. When she dares to speak out, she is dismissed, blamed, warned to stay quiet. The men in her family wield their power with impunity, while the women turn a blind eye, bound by fear or complicity.
As she grows older, Ayanna?s pain festers into rebellion. Trapped between a family that despises her and a world that refuses to protect her, Ayanna is forced to make an impossible choice; accept the life that has been carved out for her, or burn it all to the ground in search of something better.
Brutally honest and emotionally devastating, Some Girls Drown is not just a story of survival; it is a war cry against abuse, racism, and the suffocating grip of silence. It is a story of a girl who was never meant to make it, yet refuses to disappear.
