A dual-timeline novel linking a vulnerable orphaned teen in 1971 with a grieving recluse in 2016, exploring mental illness, loss, and hard-won hope.
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A dual-timeline novel linking a vulnerable orphaned teen in 1971 with a grieving recluse in 2016, exploring mental illness, loss, and hard-won hope.
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The paths of an orphaned girl in 1971 and a sixty-something recluse in 2016 entwine in a novel of damaged souls and salvaged hope. In 1971, orphan Marlise Schade―fourteen, anorectic, and evicted from the psychiatric hospital her trust fund can no longer support―finds herself alone in an ancestral home during a blizzard. Marlise’s struggles to survive there become the focal point for a host of imperiled figures, living and dead, whose stories intersect with hers and with forces roiling the U.S. i...
What's Inside
will contain mild spoilers
Sexual content
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Non-graphic on-page sex; past romance and intimacy recur
Violence & gore
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Profanity
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Substance use
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LGBTQ+ Rep.
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Religious content
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Magic & witchcraft
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No fantasy magic present
Occult / demonology
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Brief spectral tones; dead figures and an inexplicable visitation
Political content
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Light 1970s unrest and 2016 Trump-era America backdrop
Self-harm / suicide
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Teen protagonist’s anorexia and psych-hospital stay are central
Abuse & suffering
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Orphan trauma, isolation, and institutional neglect depicted
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