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Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by CrimeReads, Debutiful, Good Morning America, Library Journal, Zibby Mag, the San Francisco Chronicle, and more
Costa Rica, 1968. When a fire erupts at the American Fruit Company's most lucrative banana plantation burning all evidence of a massive cover-up, and her husband disappears, the future of Teresa's family is changed forever. Now, twenty-seven years later, Teresa and her daughter Lyra are picking up the pieces. Lyra wants nothing to do with Teresa but is desperate to find out what happened to her family that fateful night. Teresa, haunted by a missing husband and the ghost of her mother, is unable to reconcile the past. What unfolds is a story of a mother and daughter trying to forgive what they do not understand and the mystery at the heart of one family's rupture.