Mapping Eden
ISBN 9780578838526
When her dreamy, musical mother falls desperately ill, six-year-old Julia is terrified but forbidden to speak of it. Her mother will get better, Julia’s father insists, if only she is left in peace. Maybe he believes his lie.
As her mother slips away, Julia’s sweet memories no longer seem real.
In the ancient maps she studies with her father, Julia searches for clues to a landscape forever altered. She looks for “the footprints, the markers” of what she had, and what she lost. She returns to the sheltering trees and cool shade of her childhood street to conjure “the mother and the daughter . . . not exactly seen but believed.”
ISBN 9780578838526
When her dreamy, musical mother falls desperately ill, six-year-old Julia is terrified but forbidden to speak of it. Her mother will get better, Julia’s father insists, if only she is left in peace. Maybe he believes his lie.
As her mother slips away, Julia’s sweet memories no longer seem real.
In the ancient maps she studies with her father, Julia searches for clues to a landscape forever altered. She looks for “the footprints, the markers” of what she had, and what she lost. She returns to the sheltering trees and cool shade of her childhood street to conjure “the mother and the daughter . . . not exactly seen but believed.”
ISBN 9780578838526
When her dreamy, musical mother falls desperately ill, six-year-old Julia is terrified but forbidden to speak of it. Her mother will get better, Julia’s father insists, if only she is left in peace. Maybe he believes his lie.
As her mother slips away, Julia’s sweet memories no longer seem real.
In the ancient maps she studies with her father, Julia searches for clues to a landscape forever altered. She looks for “the footprints, the markers” of what she had, and what she lost. She returns to the sheltering trees and cool shade of her childhood street to conjure “the mother and the daughter . . . not exactly seen but believed.”
★★★★★
“"A poetic reverie on love and loss. . . . A gift to the reader."
Amy Weintraub, author of Temple Dancer