The Call I Didn’t Answer by Chris Yiangou | Motivated Savages

The Call I Didn't Answer

The Call I Didn’t Answer

by Chris Yiangou

A late-night call unanswered. Years of love, silence, and memory unravel.

ABOUT THE BOOK

When the woman he once loved calls in the middle of the night, Adam lets the phone ring. He tells himself he’ll call her back in the morning. By then, it will be too late.

Elena is gone, and Adam is left with a question he cannot put down: why did she call him?

Weeks after the funeral, Elena’s husband hands Adam a small box of things she kept. Inside are fragments of a shared past Adam thought he understood. But Elena remembered their parting differently, and the story he has carried for years begins to change.

As he revisits the choices that separated them, Adam must confront not only what he lost, but the lives they built afterward and the consequences of decisions he has tried not to examine.

The Call I Didn’t Answer is a character-driven contemporary literary novel about mature relationships, grief, memory and regret.

A novel about love, loss, and the things we leave unsaid.


Book Details:

  • Genre: Literary Fiction
  • Format: Paperback, eBook


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