Hollow Bones

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of By Any Other Name comes a gripping new novel about mothers, daughters and the lengths to which we will go to protect the people we love.

On September 11, 2001, when Molly Fitzgerald was two months old, her mother went to a doctor’s appointment at the World Trade Center and never came home. Her stepmother couldn't have loved Molly more or cared for her better, but Molly still grew up with a healthy dread of disasters.

Now an adult, Molly runs the Rhode Island Department for Emergency Preparedness and Response—readying for disasters and trying to mitigate the damage when they occur. She and her husband Jesse—a polygraph expert for the Providence police—are navigating their first pregnancy, juggling their excitement with the knowledge of how dangerous the world can be. But then an unexpected encounter upends their life, leading Molly to question everything she thought she knew, who she truly is and whether some disasters are more devastating than others.

Moving between present-day America and the country sent reeling in 2001, Hollow Bones spotlights the relationships between parents and children, the shocking failures of the systems designed to protect us and the lies we tell ourselves as we write the narratives of our lives.