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Trauma’s darkness, healing’s hope, a search for home and love.

How You Come Back

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    382 pages

  • Release Date

    21 February 2026

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Summary

On the evening before Thanksgiving break, Sunny finds herself in the classroom of a teacher every girl knows better than to be alone with. With the pressure of his palm seared into her thigh, she slams through the school doors into the autumn cold and flees to the relative safety of her broken home, setting off a chain of events that upends her life. With every emotional wound unraveling inside her, Sunny fixates on her estranged drug-addicted mother and forms a plan with her unshakeable best friend, Gracie, to track her down. A quest for answers, for healing, for love, How You Come Back navigates the darkness of trauma, and the flickering hope that can find the way forward.

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781938841477
ISBN-10:1938841476
Author:Chelsea Laine Wells
Publisher:Jaded Ibis Press
Imprint:Jaded Ibis Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:382
Release Date:21 February 2026
Weight:454g
Dimensions:24mm x 138mm x 216mm
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How You Come Back by Chelsea Laine Wells - ISBN: 9781938841477
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About The Author

Chelsea Laine Wells

Chelsea Laine Wells is a creative writing teacher and managing editor of Hypertext Magazine, living in Dallas, TX. Her work has been published in Pithead Chapel, PANK, New South, Split Lip, and many others. A limited-edition book containing her work was released by Lark Sparrow Press in 2016. Eleven of her stories have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net, with “The Contents of Her Stomach” featuring in Best of the Net 2015. How You Come Back is her first novel.

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