Aftershock

“Alison
Taylor’s debut novel is a riveting exploration of two tough women, a mother and
a daughter, on a separate but similar journey, to figure out who they want to
be and how to love each other again.” —Zoe Whittall, author of Scotiabank
Giller Prize finalist The Best Kind of People

Shared trauma has
driven them a world apart; they will need to find each other again to begin to
heal

Nightmares still haunt Chloe thirteen
years after a fatal tragedy led to the disintegration of her family. Her
mother, Jules, has a busy tech career, a long history of chronic pain—and
little time for Chloe. After Chloe drops out of university to travel for a
year, Jules’s OxyContin dependency quickly worsens. Aftershock follows their parallel journeys: Jules struggles to
regain control of her life, while Chloe, after a rocky visit with her estranged
father in New Zealand, resolves to go off the map and spend some time alone,
travelling. When Jules suddenly can’t find her daughter, the feeling is all too
familiar. Mother and daughter will need to address old secrets and the
emotional impact they have wrought before they can reconcile with each other,
and, finally, with themselves.