· After the Eclipse: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Search by Sarah Perry (, Hardcover) The lowest-priced brand-new, unused, unopened, undamaged item in its original packaging (where packaging is applicable).5/5(2). · After the Eclipse A Mother’s Murder, A Daughter’s Search Sarah Perry Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Until she was 12, Sarah Perry had a mother she adored. Crystal Perry was 30 when she was raped and stabbed to death in the kitchen of their Bridgton home. Sarah had been sleeping in the next room. The murderer was not caught for 12 years. When Sarah Perry was twelve, she saw a partial eclipse of the sun, an event she took as a sign of good fortune for her and her mother, Crystal. But that brief moment of darkness ultimately foreshadowed a much larger one: two day A fierce memoir of a mother’s murder, a daughter’s coming-of-age in the wake of immense loss, and her mission to know the woman who gave her life/5.
Aesop's Fables. After the Eclipse: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Search (Sarah Perry) Against Interpretation (Susan Sontag) The Age of Innocence (Edith Wharton) After the Eclipse: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Search (Sarah Perry) 6. Agnes and the Hitman 7. All Adults Here (Emma Straub) 8. All the Light We Cannot See 9. All the Ugly and Wonderful Things (Bryn Greenwood) The Almost Sisters (Joshilyn Jackson). How do you make sense of a hard-working, devoted young mother being brutally killed while her daughter cowers in a nearby room? That's the question Sarah Perry attempts to answer in her harrowing, haunting new memoir, After the Eclipse Rather than recount her mother's murder and its aftermath chronologically, Perry employs a more ambitious structure in the first half of her memoir.
After the Eclipse: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Search (Hardcover) Published September 26th by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Hardcover, pages. Author (s): Sarah Perry (Goodreads Author) ISBN: (ISBN ) Edition language: English. After the Eclipse pulls the reader swiftly along on parallel tracks of mystery and elegy. Early on, Perry dispels any question of whether her mother hastened her own death through her choices in men or her behavior, but she withholds who actually killed her mother until almost the end. When Sarah Perry was twelve, she saw a partial eclipse of the sun, an event she took as a sign of good fortune for her and her mother, Crystal. But that brief moment of darkness ultimately foreshadowed a much larger one: two day A fierce memoir of a mother’s murder, a daughter’s coming-of-age in the wake of immense loss, and her mission to know the woman who gave her life.
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