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The Children
Who Don’t
Have Names.

A darkly funny novel for adults about growing up without much protection—and finding a family in the people nobody was looking after.

A story about children. Written for adults.

The Children Who Don’t Have Names book cover: handwritten title above a city at dusk, with a toy giraffe and car on a windowsill
A novelDaniel Marsett
Literary fictionDark humor / Found family / Coming of age

From the world of the novel

The city likes a sad story.
It has less patience for
an inconvenient child.

Comfort turns up in arguments over books, food divided one more way, and somebody staying when they could have left.

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Daniel Marsett

Author of The Children Who Don’t Have Names. Fiction about the lives we overlook, the families we find, and the difficult business of caring for one another.

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