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I stood looking at him in a mixture of shock, fear, and embarrassment. What in God's name was he doing? I understood that he was lying on his potential death bed in the hospital. But I couldn't believe he had the nerve to bring up the past after all these years - especially in front of my mother (without being specific). I thought he was obviously out of his mind due to the morphine he was on.

Oh, I see. He felt the need to ask for my forgiveness, confess his sins to God, and pray that he still had a chance to get into Heaven.

In my mind, according to the Lord's Prayer, if I don't...

Sun Yi was a Shanghai journalist caught in the political crosshairs of the 1949 Communist victory. After fleeing to Hong Kong with her young daughter, Sun Yi wrote a bestselling memoir about her persecution and survival - then promptly had a breakdown that left her committed to a mental institution. Growing up, Tessa watches her mother care for Sun Yi, both of them struggling under the weight of Sun Yi’s unexamined trauma and mental illness.

Vowing to escape her mother’s smothering fear, Tessa leaves home and travels to the farthest, most remote corners of the...

Ein verborgenes Erbe, eine große Liebe und die Suche nach Heilung

Magnolia weiß sehr genau, was sie will und wo sie steht. Doch als sie in den Unterlagen ihrer verstorbenen Großmutter ein altes Flugticket nach Neuseeland entdeckt, gerät etwas ins Wanken. Was verband Rose mit der fernen Heimat von Magnolias Mutter, über deren Vergangenheit stets geschwiegen wurde? Auf der Suche nach Antworten macht sich Magnolia auf den Weg in das Land am anderen Ende der Welt. Während sie sich für den Erhalt der einzigartigen Landschaft einsetzt und den Zauber einer neuen Liebe erlebt,...

A powerful literary debut chronicling a year in the life of one thoroughly modern family

Clare Verey, a twenty-nine-year-old mother of three, bakes her own bread and grinds her own spices. She has a comfortable home in the suburbs and a devoted husband. Why is it, then, that when her best friend's lover appears in her life he has the power to invert her world? Why is the desire for more never satisfied?

So begins Accidents in the Home, a novel that exposes the emotional underbelly of a modern-day family. Clare's narrative is deftly intertwined with the stories of...