I write about what remains when the world goes quiet
Victoria Aracri DeRoche is a Richmond-based novelist whose work explores generational silence, feminine inheritance, postwar psychology, and the quiet hauntings that ripple through families across decades.
Her fiction blends literary tension, historical realism, and emotional excavation. She is the recipient of the Michael Kenneth Smith fellowship at The Porches and studies fiction through ongoing workshops and literary communities.
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Bones of the Moth
Germany, 1945. The war is over, but inside the Vogel household, silence has become its own weapon.
A literary historical novel exploring complicity, inheritance, grief, and the quiet violence families commit in the name of survival.
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