rachel jensen is perfectly happy : in love with her husband, devoted to their daughter kate, gratified by her work restoring art. and finally, she's pregnant again. but as rachel discovers, perfection can unravel in an instant. the summer she is thirteen, kate returns from camp , sullen, angery , and withdrawn. everyone assures rachel its typical adolescent angst. but then kate has a terrifying accident with her infant brother, and the ensuing guilt brings forth a dreadful lie... one that ruptures their family, perhaps irrevocably. family history is a mesmerizing journey through the mysteries of adolescent pain and family crisis.

RELEASE NOTES:

left downtown on the bridge near the post office (boardman river bridge), in a plastic bookcrossing ziplock bag