Just Eighteen

Just eighteen is a poetry collection that traces the uneven path of grief after losing someone too young. Moving through shock, denial, anger, and the quiet endurance that follows, these poems sit in hospital rooms, waiting areas, birthdays, and ordinary moments that feel permanently altered. At its heart, the book reflects on turning nineteen while she remains eighteen, and the strange weight of time continuing without permission. Honest and restrained, eighteen speaks to the people left behind those learning how to carry love and loss in the same hands, and how to keep living when the world does not pause.