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The Desert Sky Before Us
Anne Valente
William Morrow Paperbacks
May 2019
On Sale: May 14, 2019
448 pages
ISBN: 0062749870
EAN: 9780062749871
Kindle: B079DQ5NXP
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Women's Fiction
From award-winning author Anne Valente comes this
poignant and unforgettable literary novel of two estranged
sisters—one, a former racecar driver and the other a
recently-released prisoner—who embark on a road trip
together to complete the scavenger hunt their mother
designed for them before her death. When Billie is released from a correctional facility in
Decatur, her sister Rhiannon is there to meet her, even
though the two haven’t seen each other in months. Painful
secrets and numerous unspoken betrayals linger between
them—but most agonizing is the sudden passing of their
mother, a renowned paleontologist. Rhiannon and Billie must overcome their differences as they
set off on a road trip west, following the breadcrumb-trail
of their late mother’s scavenger hunt, a sort of second
funeral she planned in her final days. The sisters know the
trail will end in Utah at the famous Cleveland-Lloyd Quarry,
where their mother spent her career researching dinosaur
fossils. But the seemingly endless days on the road soon
take their toll, forcing Rhiannon and Billie to confront
their hostilities and revisit old memories—both good and bad. As they travel across the heart of America, and as a series
of plane crashes in the news make their journey all the more
urgent, the two sisters begin to rediscover each other and
to uncover their late mother’s veiled second life, taking
them on an unexpected emotional journey inward—and forcing
them to come to terms with their own choices in life.
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