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After the Eclipse: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Search
After the Eclipse A Mother's Murder a Daughter's Search Author:Sarah Perry A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice | A Best Nonfiction Title of the Year fromNylon | A Best Book of the Year byBookPage| A Must-Read Title of the Fall byEntertainment Weekly, W Magazine, The Portland Press Herald, andBook Reporter| A Great Nonfiction Title of September by Bustle |A Notable Nonfiction Debut of the Year byPoets & Writer... more »s|A Barnes & Noble Discover Pick |A Publisher's WeeklyPick of the Week
When Sarah Perry was twelve, she saw a partial eclipse, a sign of good fortune, she thought, for her and her mother, Crystal. But that moment of darkness foreshadowed a much larger one: two days later, Crystal was murdered in their home in rural Maine.
It took twelve years to find the killer. In that time, Sarah rebuilt her shattered life amidst abandonment, police interrogations, and the exacting toll of trauma. She dreamed of a trial, but when that day came it brought no closure. It was not her mother?s death she wanted to understand, but her life. She began her own investigation, one that drew her back to Maine, taking her deep into the darkness of an American town.
A memoir of ?unerring power and hard-won wisdom? and a ?tender elegy?* for a mother lost, with After the Eclipse ?Perry succeeds in restoring her mother?s humanity and her own? (New York Times Book Review).