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

Author: Perry, SarahBrand: Houghton Mifflin HarcourtEdition: First EditionBinding: HardcoverNumber Of Pages: 368Release Date: 26-09-2017Details: "Stunning." —Entertainment Weekly "Raw and perfect." —Laura Miller, Slate "Heartbreaking yet hopeful." —Samantha Irby, Marie Claire "[Perry] is a wonderful writer...Beauty 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 life. When 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 bedroom. The killer escaped unseen; it would take the p