Mapping Eden: A Novel

Winner, First Novel, 2022 Next Generation Indie Book Awards

From Mapping Eden: "No one said out loud why my mother was gone and all the other mothers were there. It could have been a secret like the things my father knew, things out of books. But it seemed like the other kind of secret, the kind you were punished for telling."

When her dreamy, musical mother falls desperately ill, six-year-old Julia is terrified but forbidden to speak of it. Her mother will get better, her father insists, if ...