The Years in Open Custody

Rina spends years believing that patience, decency, and love ought to be enough to carry a family through a crisis. But she does not lose her daughter in one clean break. She loses her by degrees: through rows, proceedings, accusations, small exclusions, and the studied indifference of people who should have known better. `The Years in Open Custody` is an autobiographically inspired novel about loyalty conflicts, exclusion without judgment, institutional indifference, and the attempt to find a life again after ten lost years.