For fans of Where the Crawdads Sing, this powerful debut novel, set amid the lush landscape of the Florida wetlands, delves into past crimes, old memories, and the eloquent, limitless expanse of parental love. Loni Mae Murrow's life as a bird artist at the Smithsonian in Washington, DC, is tidy, if a trifle constraineduntil she's abruptly summoned back home to the wetlands of northern Florida, where she grew up. Her mother, critical and difficult, has grown frail and been resentfully consigned to assisted living, and her younger brother, Phil, juggling a job, a wife, and two young children, needs her help. Loni may not be her mother's only child, but there are some things only a daughter can do. Going through her mother's things when she returns, Loni finds a cryptic note from a woman whose name she doesn't recognize: ';There are some things I have to tell you about Boyd's death,' it reads. Boyd is her father, a man who drowned in a boating accident out on the marsh when Loni was twel
