“This’ll help. I promise. What you do is, I want you to wake up and write. I want you to open your eyes every morning and put some words down on some paper.”
So begins Ingrid, one of the seven women who populate this intimate and atmospheric collection of interconnected stories about love, loss, memory, friendship, travel, and the strange places people end up while trying to rebuild themselves. Stories drift between present and past, first person and third, reality and dream.
Funny, melancholy, and quietly surreal, these stories explore chosen family, emotional inheritance, and invisible threads connecting people across distance and time. Passing through beach towns, roadside motels, abandoned houses, forests, bars, and late-night conversations, these women search for meaning in ritual, longing, and quiet truths left behind.
This is a book about the way desire and grief and memory and magic can often be passengers on the same road trip. Written with lyricism, humor, tenderness, and an eye for the sacredness hidden within overlooked places and ordinary objects.