A raw, unflinching descent into love, trauma, and the mind of a boy growing up on the edge of collapse. A tale of love and horror of a young boy, meeting a so-called goddess. For fans of A Little Life, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, and poetic coming-of-age narratives, 5 Years with Aphrodite: An Autopsy of Love is a haunting literary journey through the beautiful and brutal landscape of adolescence. Stuck in a home where mental illness is the norm, a teenage boy struggles to remain in the fight for meaning. Between grief, obsession, and survival, he meets her. A girl who is light itself. What follows is not a love story, but the autopsy of one - an exploration of the illusions one clings to when reality becomes unbearable. Through vivid scenes of schoolyard cruelty, decaying buildings, cigarette-stained mornings, and night-time escapes into imagination, the narrator unravels the fragile threads tying him to sanity. As the years unfold, love becomes both sanctuary and battlefield, forcing him to confront the truth he fears most: What if the only light you've ever known was never yours to keep? Trigger Warning: Includes depictions of self-harm, suicidal ideation, mental illness, and domestic abuse. Dive into a story that doesn't hold back, instead, shows the threads that make love brutal.