Silenced is a coming of age book about a young girl who lives with her mom and grandmother, and later on her grandmother dies, and it ends up being the start of a disaster, leading them to move in with her aunt and uncle. The book represents ocd, ptsd, emotional abuse and poverty and how much it can affect someone and how it should be taken more seriously. Most of this book is based on a true story, and all of the characters are based on real people.