A 2021 INDIE NEXT Pick
A Women's National Book Association 2021 Great Group Read
"With this novel, Kim Hooper has created magic from the seemingly
impossible. In her hands, the gossamer threads that tie three perfect
strangers to each other following a shared tragedy, become nothing less
than a transformative bond of human connection. Honest, brave, messy and
unsparing, her characters are fearless pioneers in the darkness, and
ultimately shed light for us on the most precious gift of all...life
after loss." -Brad Silberling, Writer/Director of Moonlight Mile,
Director of City of Angels
When Angie is awakened by a midnight call from an officer with the Boise
Police Department, she thinks there must be a misunderstanding. The
officer tells her that her husband was involved in a shooting at a local
bar, but how can that be possible when her husband is sleeping right
next to her? Except when she turns to wake him, he isn't there.
Tessa is the twenty-three-year-old bartender who escapes to a backroom
storage closet during the shooting. When it comes to light that five
people were killed, she is burdened with the question of why she
survived.
Joyce wakes up to a knock at her front door, a knock she assumes is her
wayward son, Jed, who must have lost his keys. It's not Jed, though. Two
police officers tell her that Jed is dead, shot at the bar. Then they
deliver even worse news: "We have reason to believe your son was the
shooter."
So begins the story of three women tied together by tragic fate--a wife
trying to understand why her now-comatose husband was frequenting a bar
in the middle of the night, the young woman who her husband was
apparently pursuing, and a mother who is forced to confront the reality
of who her son was and who she is.
