First published 2024
Lillian Waters wakes up hungover in 1980, staring down the end of everything. Her voice is failing. Her music career is over. The doctors have made it official. She assembles a ragtag band of old friends from her honky-tonk days in Washington State and Nashville, mixing them with fresh faces for one last nationwide tour. Lillian wants to feel that electric rush of live performance again, to see packed venues light up one more time. But this farewell tour has a deeper purpose. The final stop won't be another concert hall. It will be the farm she abandoned at age ten, where her sister still lives. Decades have passed since Lillian fled, carrying the weight of a childhood betrayal that split them apart. Now she must decide whether she has the courage to face the past she left behind and confront the sister who holds the key to wounds that never healed.
Genres: american-fiction, 20th-century, contemporary, adult-fiction, 21st-century, family-drama
Vibes: emotional, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: redemption, second-chance
Setting: Washington State, Nashville, Farm
Period: 1980
352 pages · Paperback · Harper Perennial