First published 2017
Lei Birch Briggs usually makes sensible choices. The 38-year-old comic book artist attends a fan convention and sleeps with an attractive stranger dressed as Batman. She becomes pregnant from their encounter. Lei returns to her childhood home to tell her family about the baby. She discovers a dangerous secret hidden in the attic. The secret connects to the Civil War era. Its revelation puts her family's freedom and future at risk. The discovery forces Lei to reconsider everything she believed about her sister, her unborn child's absent father, and herself. The world she thought she understood begins to shift around her.
Genres: american-fiction, historical-fiction, 21st-century, family-drama
Vibes: intimate, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: family-secrets, secrets
Setting: Civil War
Period: 21st Century
384 pages · Paperback · Burda