Jenny and Amanda Ruth were best friends in a small Alabama town until
eighteen-years-old Amanda Ruth was murdered. Now, fourteen years later,
Jenny has traveled with her husband to China to scatter Amanda Ruth's
ashes and finally fulfill her friend's dream of visiting her Chinese
father's homeland. It's also, Jenny hopes, an opportunity to repair her
own troubled marriage. But as she journeys through a foreign landscape,
the guilty secrets of Jenny's past rise up and her life will be
inexorably altered.
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Year of Fog
("Highly recommended [for fans of] authors like Jodi Picoult and
Jacquelyn Mitchard" --Library Journal, starred review) and No One
You Know ("Luminous . . . will keep you thinking long after the last
page has been turned"--Family Circle), Michelle Richmond's stunning
novel captivates with its depiction of the powerful intimacies of
marriage, friendship, and family that shape our paths and the bonds of
home that buoy us--wherever home may be.