After the Eclipse: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Search

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice | A Best Nonfiction Title of the Year from Nylon  |  A Best Book of the Year by BookPage | A Must-Read Title of the Fall by Entertainment Weekly, W Magazine,  The Portland Press Herald , and Book Reporter | A Great Nonfiction Title of September by Bustle | A Notable Nonfiction Debut of the Year by Poets & Writers | A Barnes & Noble Discover Pick | A Publisher's Weekly Pick of the Week When Sarah Perry was twelve, she saw a partial eclipse, a sign of good fortune, she thought, for her and her mother, Crystal. But that moment of darkness foreshadowed a much larger one: two days later, Crystal was murdered in their home in rural Maine.     It took twelve years to find the killer. In that time, Sarah rebuilt her shattered life amidst abandonment, police interrogations, and the exacting toll of trauma. She dreamed of a trial, but when that day came it brought no closure. It was not her mother’s death she wanted to understand, but her life. She began her own investigation, one that drew her back to Maine, taking her deep into the darkness of an American town.     A memoir of “unerring power and hard-won wisdom” and a “tender elegy”* for a mother lost, with After the Eclipse “Perry succeeds in restoring her mother’s humanity and her own” (New York Times Book Review).   *Margo Jefferson