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"Smart and searingly passionate...an illuminating snapshot of nature,
betrayal, and sacrifices set in the evocative New Hampshire
wilderness."--Kim Michele Richardson, bestselling author of The Book
Woman of Troublesome Creek
A startling and timely debut, Julie Carrick Dalton's Waiting for the
Night Song is a moving, brilliant novel about friendships forged in
childhood magic and ruptured by the high price of secrets that leave you
forever changed.
Cadie Kessler has spent decades trying to cover up one truth. One
moment. But deep down, didn't she always know her secret would surface?
An urgent message from her long-estranged best friend Daniela Garcia
brings Cadie, now a forestry researcher, back to her childhood home.
There, Cadie and Daniela are forced to face a dark secret that ended
both their idyllic childhood bond and the magical summer that takes up
more space in Cadie's memory then all her other years combined.
Now grown up, bound by long-held oaths, and faced with truths she does
not wish to see, Cadie must decide what she is willing to sacrifice to
protect the people and the forest she loves, as drought, foreclosures,
and wildfire spark tensions between displaced migrant farm workers and
locals.
Waiting for the Night Song is a love song to the natural beauty around
us, a call to fight for what we believe in, and a reminder that the
truth will always rise.
