Staying Was the Hardest Part (vol. 1)

When her brother disappeared five years ago, Evren fell silent – the doctors’ diagnosis is mutism. Not only has the silence quelled her desire to study medicine, but it has also severed her connection to others around her. Talhah, whose path crosses hers much too often, is not put off by Evren’s walls. Yet he has his own history of escape from war and loss that should have robbed him of any sense of stability – still, he’s the first solid ground that Evren has felt under her feet.

In every respect, an intense novel that gets under your skin with its emotional depiciton of important topics.