In a city silenced by a totalitarian regime, the past is a crime and hope is a whisper. Amidst the decay, three lives intersect: a grieving mother who collects jars of ash as silent evidence of loss, a compromised journalist forced to burn the truth, and a musician who turns forbidden melodies into a code of remembrance. Their quiet acts of defiance are threads in a hidden tapestry of resistance known as The Undercurrent.

As the oppressive architecture of their world begins to crack, they each confront a profound personal unbecoming-shedding the roles imposed upon them to discover the fragile, enduring power of memory. The Holy Ache of the Unbecoming is a haunting and lyrical novel that explores the cost of truth and the quiet, persistent strength of the human spirit against the relentless tide of forgetting.

Laughton J. Collins, Jr. was born in the 20th century but currently lives in the 21st century. He is originally from Georgia?currently living somewhere in the Pacific Northwest?in and/around the Seattle area.