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A GOOD MORNING AMERICA Book Club selection
An Indie Next Readers Group selection
A San Francisco Chronicle Top Pick ​

"Chessman paints word pictures bathed in light and color."--Boston Globe

"Powerful...One of the best books of the year." --San Francisco Chronicle 

While Hannah Pearl increasingly inhabits the world of her ardent and frightened youth in war-torn France and England, the memory of her more recent American life with her daughter and granddaughters is almost erased.  

Harriet Scott Chessman’s masterful and compassionate third novel is a series of interlinked stories in which each character must negotiate the fraught intricacies of memory, geography, and motherhood. And it is finally the reader who discovers and illuminates, with miraculous effect, all the pieces of this intelligent and dream-like puzzle.

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Harriet Scott Chessman is the acclaimed author of four powerful and elegantly crafted novels, including The Beauty of Ordinary Things, Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper, and Ohio Angels. Her fiction has been translated into ten languages, and featured in The New York Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, NPR’s All Things Considered,  Good Morning America, The Christian Science Monitor, and more. She has taught English and creative writing at Yale University, Bread Loaf School of English, and Stanford University. She recently completed the libretto for a new opera with composer Jonathan Berger, which was premiered by the Kronos Quartet in 2016. She lives in Connecticut.

LITERATURE/FICTION
​ISBN:978-0-9893023-5-7
158 pages
8.5"x5.5" trade paperback

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