"A Pleasant Fiction: Special Preview Edition"

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This isn’t an ad. It’s a confession. A father’s funeral. A son’s reckoning. A life measured in what remains. From Javier De Lucia, award-winning author of A Pleasant Fiction, comes this special preview edition—three interwoven stories of grief, memory, and redemption that capture the quiet moments between heartbreak and healing. In these pages, Calvin McShane faces the echoes of loss — a father’s silence, a brother’s absence, a friend’s lasting presence. Each story stands alone, yet together they reveal how love endures even when belief slips away. This exclusive sampler includes: Three full chapters from A Pleasant Fiction Author essays and award-winning reviews offering deeper insight into the book’s themes A Pleasant Fiction: Special Preview Edition is free to download. Experience three powerful chapters that stand on their own—stories of grief, loss, and redemption that capture the spirit of the full novel that early reviewers called “painfully and beautifully true,” and discover why this story has moved so many readers to tears.