Nothing is sweeter than taste of freedom especially when
you are a high school graduate embarking on what is sure
to be the beginning of rest of your life. For Kara
Churchill, her future has never looked brighter. As she
teeters on the cusp of adulthood with her family
enthusiastically cheering her on, the sky is the limit as
she takes hold of her life and plans the path she most
happily wants to take.
When a simple outing with her best friend turns
into a rescue mission for a lost dog, Kara's attention
innocently gets diverted from the road as they try to calm
the stray and bring him to safety. As she maneuvers her
parents' SUV while talking on her cell phone, she
accidentally runs over a pedestrian in the crosswalk and
winds up killing her. What started out as a good deed has
turned into a family's greatest nightmare.
As Kara slowly withdraws from her family and
becomes numb wallowing in her own guilt and pain, her
mother, Leigh, tries to make amends with friends and
colleagues as the town mourns the death of an innocent
girl. Embarking on an unexpected but long overdue
journey, Leigh puts together the pieces from her own
troubled past as she desperately tries to reconnect with
her daughter before it is too late. Can she help Kara
survive knowing that her daughter's negligence caused the
end to another's life? Will Kara ever be able to forgive
herself and live the life her parents have always dreamed
she would have?
THE REST OF HER LIFE is a powerful and captivating
page turner that begs to ask what a family would do when
forced to face the unthinkable. Moriarty's crisp writing
and attention to detail make this riveting tale of
forgiveness and redemption a heartbreaking and poignant
masterpiece.
Leigh is the mother of high-achieving, popular high school
senior Kara. Their relationship is already strained for
reasons Leigh does not fully understand when, in a moment of
carelessness, Kara makes a mistake that ends in tragedy --
the effects of which not only divide Leigh's family, but
polarize the entire community. We see the story from Leigh's
perspective, as she grapples with the hard reality of what
her daughter has done and the devastating consequences her
actions have on the family of another teenage girl in town,
all while struggling to protect Kara in the face of rising
public outcry.
Like the best works of Jane Hamilton, Jodi Picoult, and
Alice Sebold, Laura Moriarty's The Rest of Her Life
is a novel of complex moral dilemma, filled with nuanced
characters and a page-turning plot that makes readers ask
themselves, "What would I do?"
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