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ISBN: 979-8-218-89430-6

Memoir of Faith, Family, and the Silence That Shaped Us

What do we inherit from the people who raised us? Their love? Their flaws? Their silence?

When Nairda Mack’s father passed away, she stepped into a role she had been preparing for her whole life without realizing it—caring for a mother whose untreated schizophrenia had shaped every breath of her childhood. As she folded her mother’s clothes into neat piles, familiar memories rose like echoes: the yelling through the open window, the conversations with people no one else could see, the secrets whispered only inside their home.

For decades, Nairda carried those memories quietly, believing silence was safer than truth. But grief has a way of unraveling what we thought we buried. In returning to her past, she discovered not just pain, but purpose.

The Quiet Inheritance is a lyrical, faith-rooted memoir about the generational impact of mental illness, the cost of loyalty, and the courage it takes to finally speak the story that shaped you. With tenderness and clarity, Nairda writes about the child she was, the woman she became, and the daughter she is still learning to be.

This is a story of breaking open. A story of choosing healing over silence. A story for anyone who has ever carried a quiet suffering and longed to be free.