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In a town built on trust, the most dangerous harm is the kind no one sees. John Robinson has spent his life on the same Midwestern farm his grandparents worked before him. His wife, Sarah, believes in rising-through church, through community, through the quiet rituals that make a life feel safe. Their son Jake is bright, eager, and desperate to be chosen by the men who praise him, mentor him, and promise to shape him into someone strong. But when a respected Scout leader begins to take an interest in Jake, the town's easy kindness becomes a perfect hiding place. Parents look away. Institutions reassure. And the harm that grows in the quiet corners of good intentions threatens to break a family that has always believed everything would be jake. Told with devastating restraint and deep compassion, Everything's Jake explores the slow, subtle arrangements of power that feel natural while they are forming-and catastrophic once revealed. This is not a story about monsters. It is a story about the systems that protect them. For readers of Kent Haruf, Celeste Ng, and Marilynne Robinson, this novel is a haunting portrait of ordinary goodness, the shadows it can cast, and the courage it takes to finally see what has been there all along.

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