Lonnie likes her orderly life working at the Smithsonian Natural History museum in DC. So when her brother calls her home to North Florida to help with their mother, she feels nothing but dread. Once back in her hometown, old questions resurface about her father's death. Maybe it wasn't an accident or suicide. As she starts asking questions, she finds people are frightened to tell her anything and what she does learn does not coincide with what she was told about his death. Lonnie struggles to trust those she should and trust those she shouldn't. Once I started this book, I couldn't put it down. Definitely perfect those those yearning for a book like Where the Crawdad's Sing.

A young woman takes a leave of absence for her job at the Smithsonian to return to her Florida home to care for her mother with beginning dementia. While there, she discovers secrets involving her father's death and an understanding why her mother has been so distant to her since, then . A beautifully written story about families and what connects them. A must read for readers of women's fiction.

Lori Mae Morrow leaves her job at the Smithsonian to return to her home in northern Florida when her younger brother pleads with her to come back to help with their rapidly declining mother. With her mother in a nursing home, Lori is left to sort through the detritus of her mother’s life. She finds the normal, small reminders of a life lived, along with a note from a woman Lori does not know. The note refers to Lori’s father, Boyd’s death. Long presumed a suicide by drowning in the marsh when Lori was a child, the note offers hints that his death may have been something more sinister. Lori sets out to uncover the truth about her father, trying to get information from her mother, who may or may not remember what really happened to her father. This is a beautifully written story about family, memory and loss