The highly anticipated debut work of adult fiction from award-winning
author of crossover novel Catching the Light, following three
generations of Newfoundland women.
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Some memories are treasured, re-read like a favourite book. Some are
traumatic and won't stay buried. But memories can be unreliable, can
fade and mutate. They affect our actions and choices.
Memories of a happy marriage comfort Liz through widowhood, while
flashbacks to a devastating sexual assault overwhelm her youngest
daughter, Eve. Her middle daughter, Carlie, is building a new life in
another country but longing for home is pulling her back, while Ginny,
the eldest, takes on everyone's problems as her own. Eve's daughter,
Rosie, remembers nothing of her absent father and yearns to track him
down against her family's wishes.
Then Liz is diagnosed with dementia, and the family's resilience is
tested as the matriarch begins to falter. If life is all memory, what is
left when it's gone?
Memory is at the core of all these women's lives: elusive, intrusive,
helpful or misleading. What's revealed is a story about the struggle to
maintain a sense of family, home, and self, amidst all life can throw at
you.
