Silent Clamor Press
Silent Clamor publishes emotionally resonant literary and upmarket fiction that illuminates the depths of human experience. Our carefully curated books combine literary excellence with compelling storytelling—works of depth and integrity that transform how we see ourselves and the world.
Books that don’t stop at the surface
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Painting Grace
by Mary Hester
February 24, 2026
Miriam Johnson, widowed and recently diagnosed with cancer after a lifetime shaped by loss, remains in her long-held home among the live-oak-shaded streets of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where she must dismantle her independence, accept unwanted help, and decide what to release before time runs out, drawing the reader into intimacy, sorrow, and quiet pressure.
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The Book of Why
by J. Bradley Minnick
April 2026
Boys raised in 1960s Midwestern neighborhoods—beside fathers who carried Depression childhoods and inherited cars from dead grandfathers, across the street from neighbors with Corvettes and swimming pools—move through tar-softened roads, gravel driveways, backyard jungles, and roadside tar pits where they must risk their bodies in games they cannot control, absorbing the war and class and early death that press in from the adult world, leaving the reader held close to harm and irreversible loss.
The Space Between Now and Then
by Michael Loyd Gray
May 2026
Working-class boys and men who learned early—through public humiliation, domestic violence, sudden death, and quiet abandonment—that protection and tenderness carry consequence move through Midwestern farm towns, riverbanks, diners, pool halls, duplexes, gravel roads, and fading main streets. Shaped by these places, they must endure intimacy, decide when to leave, and risk staying put, drawing the reader into constriction, apprehension, and unprotected closeness.
Simple Songs for the End of the World
by M.C. Schmidt
June 2026
Gus, a thirty-six-year-old who watched his friend Mal waste to nothing under chemotherapy in high school and swore never to let treatment rob him of his final months, must now schedule his own amputation in Yellow Springs, Ohio, where broke bandmates bundle silverware at the pizzeria and Sunday potlucks fill postage-stamp lawns, while satellites fall and the world goes quiet; the reading is dread cut with gallows humor, softened by the steady pressure of people who love you and don't know what to say.
One Way
by Hélène Herault, translated by Liza Tripp
July 2026
Béatrice, who stayed married to Gaëtan for thirty-two years after a violent incident in the Verdon Forest when she was eighteen, abandons their home without warning and begins sending him letters he cannot answer—letters that arrive at his office and house, exposing his professional misconduct and private cruelty while she and another woman prepare formal complaints against him, forcing readers to endure the mounting pressure of her methodical, irreversible campaign.
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