{"product_id":"9780544302211","title":"After the Eclipse: A Memoir","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Stunning.\" \u003c\/b\u003e—\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eEntertainment Weekly \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e|\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e \"Raw and perfect.\" \u003c\/b\u003e—\u003cb\u003eLaura Miller, \u003ci\u003eSlate\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Heartbreaking yet hopeful.\" \u003c\/b\u003e—\u003cb\u003eSamantha Irby, \u003ci\u003eMarie Claire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"[Perry] is a wonderful writer...Beauty and tenderness rise up through the darkness...[She] succeeds in restoring her mother's humanity, and her own.\" \u003c\/b\u003e—\u003cb\u003eBliss Broyard, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eBook Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e When Sarah Perry was twelve, 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.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e The killer escaped unseen; it would take the police twelve 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.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Told in searing prose, \u003ci\u003eAfter the Eclipse\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"Houghton Mifflin Harcourt","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47120374006000,"sku":"9780544302211","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780544302211_p0.jpg?v=1763711835","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780544302211","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}