A daughter searching for answers. A mother lost too soon. A past that refuses to stay buried.
At twelve years old, Sarah Perry’s life was shattered. Days after they witnessed an eclipse together, her mother was brutally murdered in their small Maine town. It took twelve years to find the killer. But closure never came.
Sarah’s search for justice soon became a quest to know the woman she lost. What was her mother’s life before the headlines? What were her dreams, her fears? In returning to the past, Sarah uncovers not only her mother’s story but the truth of her own resilience.
A haunting, lyrical memoir of grief, love, and the long shadow of trauma, After the Eclipse is a powerful exploration of a daughter’s determination to remember and to heal.
