Once Upon a Day: A Novel

A lyrical literary novel about family, loss, and hope, Once Upon a Day follows a young woman’s journey from isolation into the wider world as she searches for her missing brother and the truth about her past.

Nineteen years ago, a famous man disappeared from Los Angeles, taking his two children, Dorothea and Jimmy, to a rocky, desolate corner of New Mexico where he raised them in complete isolation in a utopian “Sanctuary.” The children grew up with books and encyclopedias, records and a gra...