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Day Brings Back the Night
Paperback
General FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $21.99
ISBN13: 9781962834766
Publisher: Calumet Editions
Published: May 29 2026
Pages: 266
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A Literary Family Novel of Grief, Memory, and Forgiveness
In 1989 Minneapolis, Helen is preparing for a new life with her husband, Tom, and their two children. As she sorts through old photographs, keepsakes, and memories, the past rises around her: first love, betrayal, addiction, self-destruction, and the long ache of a childhood without the love she needed most. Helen wants to believe she can transform her scars into something beautiful. But some wounds do not disappear simply because a family learns not to speak of them.
Years later, Tom and his daughter Amanda travel north toward the Boundary Waters, carrying Helen's absence between them. What begins as a journey through grief becomes an excavation of everything their family has hidden, misunderstood, and survived.
By 2023, the family gathers again at a lakeside cabin, where children, spouses, and grandchildren must confront the emotional inheritance Helen left behind. In the wilderness, old silences crack open. Love is tested not by whether it exists, but by whether it can withstand truth.
Lyrical, intimate, and psychologically rich, Day Brings Back the Night is a multigenerational family novel about memory, suicide loss, forgiveness, and the fragile possibility of healing. For readers of Dani Shapiro, Elizabeth Strout, Ann Patchett, and literary fiction that asks how the past continues to live inside those who remain.
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