After the Eclipse

<p><b>A <i>New York Times Book Review</i> Editors' Choice. A fierce memoir of a mother's murder a daughter's coming-of-age in the wake of immense loss and her mission to know the woman who gave her life.</b><br/><br/>When Sarah Perry was twelve she saw a partial eclipse; she took it as a good omen 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. <br/><br/>It took twelve years to find the killer. In that time Sarah rebuilt her life amid abandonment police interrogations and the exacting toll of trauma. She dreamed of a trial but when the day came it brought no closure. <br/><br/>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 deep into the darkness of a small American town. <br/><br/>“Pull[ing] the reader swiftly along on parallel tracks of mystery and elegy” in <i>After the Eclipse</i> “Perry succeeds in restoring her mother's humanity and her own” (<i>The New York Times Book Review</i>).</p>