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Overcome: The Weight We Carry (New Version)

by Michael Geyer
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9798198211186
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Independently Published
  • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 120
  • Original Price: GBP 8.93
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 127 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Sports & Recreation / Basketball

Some weight doesn't disappear.

It stays with us-shaping who we become.

Overcome: The Weight We Carry is a powerful coming-of-age story about grief, identity, and learning how to keep going when the things that anchor us begin to fall away. Through basketball, loss, and quiet resilience, Billy searches for meaning beyond effort alone-and discovers that strength isn't found in perfection, but in choosing to continue.

Billy grows up carrying an absence he doesn't yet have words for-his father leaving when he was three. That early loss shapes how he measures himself, how he responds to failure, and how he learns to survive. On the basketball court, effort feels controllable. Misses can be followed by another shot. Pain can be outrun.

As Billy moves through middle school and high school, the pressure intensifies. Bullying, self-doubt, and the constant fear of not being enough follow him on and off the court. Just as he begins to find his footing, life delivers a deeper blow: his mother-the one person who never left-is diagnosed with cancer.

Basketball becomes both refuge and reckoning. Injuries, anger, and grief collide, forcing Billy to confront who he is when the noise fades and the court goes quiet. What follows is not a story about winning, but about reckoning with loss, learning when effort isn't enough, and understanding that some weight isn't meant to be escaped-only carried forward.

Overcome: The Weight We Carry is a quiet, honest novel for anyone who has felt pressure to be strong, who has loved and lost, or who has wondered who they are when the things that once defined them fall away.

A story about the weight we carry, and how it shapes who we become.

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