When a local mother goes missing, two feuding sisters are forced to confront the quiet disintegration underlying motherhood, marriage, addiction and grief in this honest, emotionally layered novel about the many ways women disappear in plain sight.Frankie is the fun, lively, hot-tempered sister who quit drinking, opened a bookstore, and plunged into a domestic lifestyle without fully confronting her past. As for Mary, she is the stoic, nurturing mother who quietly collapses under the weight of the demands of her daughter with special needs, and the loneliness of her marriage to a husband who views the world from a completely different perspective.For the Gilmore sisters, losing their mother to cancer at a young age gave them a brief period of closeness that they could not regain. But over the years, the father's mental illness, repressed trauma of sexual violence, and resort to various vices to survive cracked their relationship and created a chasm of resentment that neither of them could cross. When a woman disappears from Frankie's social circle, the sisters find themselves in a shared confrontation, no longer able to deny the past that was so much a part of their...Their present.
Set in a quiet mountain town in Northern California, this poignant and poignant novel unfolds through alternating points of view, revealing the many ways women disappear in the midst of motherhood, addiction, marriage, and shame. Told with searing honesty and searing empathy, Jessica Guerreri's second novel is a story about sisterhood, acceptance, the unspoken truths we carry, and the power of transforming pain into inspiring connection.
