Description

Title: After the Eclipse: A Mother’s Murder, a Daughter’s Search

Author: Sarah Perry

ISBN: 9780544302655

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2017

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Edition: First Edition

Number of Pages: 368

Condition Note: Excellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.

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“Stunning.” —
Entertainment Weekly
“Raw and perfect.” —
Laura Miller, Slate
“Heartbreaking yet hopeful.” —
Samantha Irby, Marie Claire “[Perry] is a wonderful and tenderness rise up through the darkness…[She] succeeds in restoring her mother’s humanity, and her own.” —
Bliss Broyard, The New York Times
Book Review
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 Sarah Perry was twelve, she saw a partial eclipse of the sun, an event she took as a sign of good fortune for her and her mother, Crystal. But that brief moment of darkness ultimately foreshadowed a much larger one: two days later, Crystal was murdered in their home in rural Maine, just a few feet from Sarah’s killer escaped unseen; it would take the police twelve years to find him, time in which Sarah grew into adulthood, struggling with abandonment, police interrogations, and the effort of rebuilding her life when so much had been lost. Through it all she would dream of the eventual trial, a conviction–all her questions finally answered. But after the trial, Sarah’s questions only grew. She wanted to understand her mother’s life, not just her final hours, and so she began a personal investigation, one that drew her back to Maine, taking her deep into the abiding darkness of a small American in searing prose, After the Eclipse is a luminous memoir of uncomfortable truth and terrible beauty, an exquisite memorial for a mother stolen from her daughter, and a blazingly successful attempt to cast light on her life once more.