An escalating fight with her husband and Lizzy leaves the
house for a late-night run to escape the words of goodbye
she knows he's building to. But her life is irrevocably
changed anyway when a hit-and-run driver plows into her,
putting her life in critical danger.
She lies in the hospital for days, aware of visitors coming
in and out of the room. Her husband's remorse is real and
Lizzy fights to return to save her marriage. When she
awakens, though, she can't seem to find her way back to
reality. She's confused with images of her dead uncle, a
priest who took her in after her parents were killed. Lizzy
is convinced he "visited" her while she was unconscious,
and her friends and husband become worried as she won't let
go of the idea.
Whatever happened, Lizzy is re-examining her childhood,
looking at the losses she suffered and how it has affected
her life. As she begins to put pieces of a puzzle together,
the implications change not just her history, but her
future with her husband.
ANY BITTER THING is an examination that most of us don't
want to make on our own lives. Reality is perception,
right? And digging beyond those perceptions that change our
memories and the foundations of who we've become today. Yet
Lizzy plows into that unknown after almost dying, drawn
inescapably to the truths of her past. The revelations and
knowledge will change her world -- and it's a change that
will challenge readers to follow along. Beautiful writing
draws us into Lizzy's world, and pulls us along through her
Maine childhood. You'll enjoy this thought-provoking book.
Lizzy Mitchell was raised from the age of two by her uncle,
a Catholic priest. When she was nine, he was falsely
accused of improprieties with her and dismissed from his
church, and she was sent away to boarding school. Now
thirty years old and in a failing marriage, she is nearly
killed in a traffic accident. What she discovers when she
sets out to find the truths surrounding the accident—and
about the accusations that led to her uncle's death—does
more than change her life.
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