From the award-winning author of The Missing Placeβin which βLittlefieldβs writing shines" (The Boston Globe)βanother gripping exploration of the damage people can do to each other, and the resilience they find in themselves.
A man stands on the Golden Gate Bridge, poised to jumpβ¦if a woman on the other end of the phone tells him to.
Marisβs safe suburban world was shattered the day her daughter was found murdered, presumably at the hands of the young womanβs boyfriend. Her marriage crumbling, her routine shattered, Maris walks away from her pampered life as a Bay Area mom the day she receives a call from Ron, father of her daughterβs killer. Wracked with guilt over his sonβs actions (and his own possible contribution to them), he asks Maris a single question: should he jump?
With a manβs life in her hands, Maris must decide, perhaps for the first time, what she truly wants. Retribution? Forgiveness? Or something more? Having lost everything, sheβs finally free to recreate herself without the confining labels of βwife,β βmother,β or βmourner.β But will this shocking offer free her, or destroy her?
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