After the Eclipse
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Narrated by:
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Emily Woo Zeller
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By:
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Sarah Perry
About this listen
A fierce memoir of a mother's murder, a daughter's coming of age in the wake of immense loss and her mission to know the woman who gave her life.
When Sarah Perry was 12, she saw a partial eclipse of the sun, an event she took as a sign of good fortune for her and her mother, Crystal. But that brief moment of darkness ultimately foreshadowed a much larger one: two days later Crystal was murdered in their home in rural Maine, just a few feet from Sarah's bedroom.
The killer escaped unseen; it would take the police 12 years to find him, time in which Sarah grew into adulthood, struggling with abandonment, police interrogations, and the effort of rebuilding her life when so much had been lost. Through it all she would dream of the eventual trial, a conviction - all her questions finally answered. But after the trial, Sarah's questions only grew.
She wanted to understand her mother's life, not just her final hours, and so she began a personal investigation, one that drew her back to Maine, taking her deep into the abiding darkness of a small American town.
Told in searing prose, After the Eclipse is a luminous memoir of uncomfortable truth and terrible beauty, an exquisite memorial for a mother stolen from her daughter and a blazingly successful attempt to cast light on her life once more.
©2017 Sarah Perry (P)2017 TantorCritic Reviews
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- RCF
- 25-06-2020
Moving personal story
This falls into the intersection of memoir and true crime, and it’s a more powerful story as it’s told by the victim and illustrates the ripple effects of violent crime that go beyond the media reporting of the event. Reading is strong too.
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