A Place to Land
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Publisher Description
"A delightful Southern story extolling the deep bond of sisters, Lauren Denton’s?A Place to?Land?has a heartwarming tone as it unravels a 40-year-old mystery coming back to haunt a cast of small-town characters whose lives are entwined in Sugar Bend, Alabama." --New York Journal of Books.
Violet Figg and her sister Trudy have lived a quiet life in Sugar Bend, Alabama, since a night forty years ago that stole Trudy's voice and cemented Violet's role as her sister's fierce and loyal protector. Now Trudy spends her days making sculptures from found objects and speaking through notes written on scraps of paper, while Violet runs their art shop, monitors bird activity up and down the water, and tries not to think of the one great love she gave up to keep her sister safe.
Eighteen-year-old Maya knows where everyone else belongs, but she's been searching for her own place since her grandmother died seven years ago. Moving in and out of strangers' houses has left her exhausted. After seeing a flyer on a gas station window for a place called Sugar Bend, Maya chooses to follow the strange pull she feels and finds herself on the doorstep of an art shop called Two Sisters.
When a boat rises to the surface of Little River in the middle of the night, the present and no-longer-buried past collide, and the future becomes uncertain for Maya, Violet, and Trudy. As history creeps continuously closer to the present and old secrets come to light, the sisters must decide to face the truth of what happened that night forty years ago, or risk losing each other and those they've come to love.
"A touching tribute to sisterhood, first loves, and promises kept." --Susan Meissner, USA TODAY bestselling author of The Nature of Fragile Things
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
A small Alabama town confronts a decades-old secret in the atmospheric latest from Denton (The One You're With). Sisters Violet and Trudy Figg have lived in the sleepy town of Sugar Bend since they were born, and now in their later years, they enjoy a quiet life running an arts and crafts store. However, their idyllic lives belie their troubled past: the mother who left when the sisters were in high school, the abusive father who died in a drunk driving accident, and Trudy's brief marriage to Jay Malone, the charismatic owner of an ice cream store franchise who abused Trudy. Jay vanished in the early 1980s, and Trudy hasn't spoken a word since for reasons she's never explained, communicating only through written notes. Then the boat that Jay was last seen in washes up on a riverbank and the mystery of Jay's fate piques the interest of a journalist and police offer, whose investigations threaten to dredge up an acrimonious past. Denton masterfully paces this slow-burn mystery and vividly renders the dark undercurrent of small-town life, exemplified in the residents' unwillingness to believe that beloved local celebrity Jay was abusive. This thriller will keep readers on the edge of their seats.
