Everyone Carries Something : A Novel of the Lives We Never See

Maya has worked on Ward 7 for seventeen years. She is not a doctor. She is not a nurse. She is the woman who brings you tea when you can't sleep, who holds your hand when the doctor has just left the room, who remembers your name on the worst day of your life. Every person who comes through her door brings their whole world with them. A man who hasn't spoken to his daughter in years. A teenage girl carrying more than anyone her age should carry.
A young father with his daughter's drawings taped to the wall. An old man who read to his wife every evening for two years - and has not known what to do with the silence since she left. Maya carries all of them. She has always known how to be present for other people's pain. What she has never learned is how to be present for her own life. The Weight of White Walls is a novel about the people we walk past every day without knowing what they are carrying.
About the smallest moments that turn out to matter the most. About love, loss, the courage it takes to stay in the room - and one woman who spent seventeen years holding other people together, learning, finally, to hold herself.