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Moment of Clarity
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Publisher: Ben Solomon
Pages: 438
Weight: 1.28
Height: 0.97 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Margaret has spent seven years caring for Carl, her husband of fifty years, as a rare brain disease has slowly taken him from her - one crushed pill, one careful morning, one small mercy at a time. Miles away, in a house full of unpaid bills and unanswered prayers, a single father is building a life large enough for his daughter after everything he once expected has fallen apart. The two families have never met. Their streets don't touch. But when a strange, unexplainable light appears at the edge of each of their lives - a point of red that shouldn't exist and won't be explained away - both households are forced to ask the same impossible question: if what you've lost is given back to you, even for a little while, how do you dare receive it? Moment of Clarity is a quiet, deeply moving novel about love as labor, grief as companionship, and the fragile miracle of borrowed time.
- Two parallel, deeply human stories - a marriage tested by illness, a father rebuilding a shattered family - that never intersect but echo one another
- A subtle thread of the inexplicable running through both accounts, treated with restraint rather than easy answers
- Framed as a gathered testimony, told with the intimacy of oral history and case notes rather than traditional narration
- Unflinching, tender attention to the exhausting, unglamorous realities of caregiving and single parenthood
- A meditation on hope, uncertainty, and what it means to be given back something you thought was gone for good
If stories of quiet resilience and unexpected grace speak to you, get your copy of Moment of Clarity today.
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