Hollow Bones

On September 11, 2001, when Molly Fitzgerald was two months old, her
mother went to an appointment at the World Trade Center and never came
home. Her father and the stepmother who raised her couldn't have loved her more,
but she still grew up with a healthy dread of disasters.

Now an adult, she runs the Rhode Island Department for Emergency Preparedness,
mapping out plans to save lives during storms, epidemics, and plane crashes. She
and her husband, Jesse—a police polygraph expert with his own history of
crisis—have found a love that is a solace in a dangerous world. But then the
unexpected upends their new marriage, leading them both to question everything
they thought they knew.

Hollow Bones tells an epic story of the lies we tell ourselves as we write the narratives of our lives, the plans we design to protect ourselves at the worst moments, and the ties that bind mothers and daughters.