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Come Back to Me: What Lily Knew
Paperback
Publisher: Jeffrey Rittenhouse
Published: May 29 2026
Pages: 284
Weight: 0.84
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Claire Holt has not sung in the kitchen in years. She knows this the way you know many things about a life that has quietly narrowed: all at once, and too late to pretend otherwise.
She and Michael have been married for fifteen years. They share a house, a schedule, two children, and a politeness that has come to stand in for something warmer. Neither of them planned it this way. Neither of them noticed it happening until the morning Claire found a folded piece of paper tucked beneath the dish towel on the kitchen counter.
It is a school essay. Her sixteen-year-old daughter Lily wrote it. The title is I Miss My Parents.
What follows is not a dramatic unraveling. It is something harder and more honest than that: two people choosing, slowly and imperfectly, to find their way back to each other, and to themselves. It is a daughter who saw clearly what her parents could not. It is a notebook pulled from a garage box. It is a family learning, one ordinary morning at a time, that the distance between lost and found is smaller than it looks.
Come Back to Me: What Lily Knew is a novel about what we stop doing when life fills up, and what becomes possible the moment we start again.
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