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.
Open the novel ↗A moment in the opening pages
The house smelled of warm pine, floor cleaner, and the sweetish scent of medication Nora had noticed only the day before and could no longer stop smelling. On the kitchen table, Tess had arranged pill boxes in two rows, morning and evening. Jonah was still asleep on the living room couch, one leg outside the blanket. Barefoot, Cal rummaged in the refrigerator as though it had been burgled.Read the excerpt ↗