# The Weight

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- Book: [The Weight](https://www.bookquiver.com/melissa-mendes/the-weight) ([The Weight.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/melissa-mendes/the-weight.md))
- Authors: [Melissa Mendes](https://www.bookquiver.com/melissa-mendes)
- Publisher: drawn_and_quarterly
- ISBN: 978-17-7046-716-3
- Pages: 580
- Published: 2025-09-02
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

A rural family’s cycle of love, loss, and renewal, set against the beauty and adversity of mid-century America Edie comes into the world calmly as the adults around her rage. Her father is a cruel man...