Shortlisted for the Atwood Gibson Prize
Carter is a young mother on a quest to find the true meaning of her heritage, which she only learned of in her teens. Allie is trying to make up for the lost years with her first born and to protect Carter from the hurt she herself suffered from her own mother. Lucie wants the granddaughter she's never met to help her get to her ancestors in the afterlife. And Genevieve is determined to conquer her demons with the help of the sister she lost but has never been without. Meanwhile, Mame, in the afterlife, knows that she must find a way to cut herself from the last threads that keep her tethered to the living, just as they must find their own paths forward.