A quilt artist’s tidy suburban life unravels when a neighbor girl’s ghost leads her to a body, forcing her and her estranged sister to confront buried family secrets.
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A quilt artist’s tidy suburban life unravels when a neighbor girl’s ghost leads her to a body, forcing her and her estranged sister to confront buried family secrets.
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Laurel Gray Hawthorne needs to make things pretty, whether she's helping her mother make sure the literal family skeleton stays in the closet or turning scraps of fabric into nationally acclaimed art quilts. Her estranged sister Thalia, an impoverished Actress with a capital A, is her polar opposite, priding herself on exposing the lurid truth lurking behind middle class niceties. While Laurel's life seems neatly on track--a passionate marriage, a treasured daughter, and a lovely home in suburb...
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will contain mild spoilers
Sexual content
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Passionate marriage and marital strain are central; intimacy not graphic
Violence & gore
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Child’s body found in a pool; death investigation without graphic gore
Profanity
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No evidence found in available sources
Substance use
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No evidence found in available sources
LGBTQ+ Rep.
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No evidence found in available sources
Religious content
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No evidence found in available sources
Magic & witchcraft
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No fantasy magic present
Occult / demonology
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Ghost of a deceased girl appears and guides the protagonist
Political content
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Class divides and Southern social facades as recurring themes
Self-harm / suicide
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Child’s death treated as possible suicide; body discovered on-page
Abuse & suffering
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Family secrets, guilt, and trauma tied to a child’s death
Other
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