I think most readers know this specific sort of pain, and it’s what makes me a bit apprehensive whenever reading my second book from an author. When I read The Last House On Needless Street last year and it became one of my favorite reads of the year (perhaps my singular favorite, even), I worried that Catriona Ward could end up being one of those authors with whom I would have this shining, brilliant moment for one book, and then end up disappointed in the next. It is poison and madness flowering behind your eyes. It means to be confronted with a thought so vast, dark and monstrous that it will not fit into any known shapes in your mind. When people say something is “unthinkable,” what they usually mean is that they don’t want to think it. The mother and daughter embark on a dark, desert journey to the past in the hopes of redeeming their future. And Callie fears that only one of them will leave Sundial alive… Rob has begun to look at her strangely, and speaks of past secrets. And there she will have to make a terrible choice.Ĭallie is worried about her mother. She decides to take Callie back to her childhood home, to Sundial, deep in the Mojave Desert. Rob sees a darkness in Callie, one that reminds her too much of the family she left behind. But Rob fears for her oldest daughter, Callie, who collects tiny bones and whispers to imaginary friends. She almost got it, too: a husband, two kids, a nice house in the suburbs.

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