First published 2025
Marie sits at her kitchen table, rehearsing words she has carried for decades. Her daughter Claire will arrive soon for their weekly dinner, unaware that tonight will change everything between them. Marie has decided the time has come to reveal the family secrets she has protected Claire from since childhood. As mother and daughter navigate this conversation, years of careful silence give way to raw honesty. Claire must reconcile the woman she thought she knew with the complex person sitting across from her. The evening unfolds as both women confront how truth can reshape love, and how understanding the past might forge a different future. This story explores the weight of maternal protection and the courage required when that protection must end.
Genres: literary-fiction, contemporary, family-drama
Vibes: emotional, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: family-drama, mother-daughter-relationship
50 pages · Hardcover · Gretchen Rubin Media