Taking Care: A Daughter's Memoir

A seven-year-old girl loses her mother to a tragedy no one will explain. This literary memoir spans a lifetime as she uncovers a devastating secret and discovers how memories form a legacy.

On a clear February evening in 1949, Emilie Clothier's world shattered when her mother died in a fiery explosion. For eleven years, she carried fragments of a story that never added up-until she learned the truth: her mother had taken her own life.

Shuttled between relatives and yearning for the mother she...