Book Blast: What Remains After
This post is part of a virtual book tour organized by Goddess Fish Promotions . Pauline J. Grabia will be awarding a $10 Amazon/BN gift card to a randomly drawn winner. Click on the tour banner to see the other stops on the tour. SOME STORIES DO NOT END WHEN THE DANGER PASSES. Beth Clark has not returned to her hometown in decades, since the childhood she survived there nearly destroyed her. When her estranged mother dies, Beth comes back to rural Alberta for a funeral that feels carefully rewritten. The eulogies are tidy. The past is sanitized. But inside the abandoned bungalow where she and her brother once lived, Beth finds objects that shatter the illusion—and awaken memories of abuse, neglect, and the systems that failed to protect her. When Beth's younger brother is critically injured in a sudden accident, the present collides with the past. Keeping vigil at his hospital bedside, Beth is drawn back into the summer that changed everything: the violence in their home,...