In the StoryThe House on Lake Tahoe
Their mother insists there were five of them. Around her bed, no one knows where the missing child belongs. In the house on Lake Tahoe, Marian Keane’s final days gather her family around small acts and words that have become precious. Then a number shakes their family memories. Five children. Nora cannot reconcile that certainty with the family she knows.
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There was nothing unusual about the silence that followed. Their father had been dead for nine years. Marian sometimes asked for him on waking, then remembered on her own. The day before, she had asked whether the old outboard boat was in the water; that had been gone since 2003.Read the excerpt ↗