The Painter: A novel about perseverance, sacrifice, and the quiet work of holding a life together
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ISBN13: 9798252605555
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Mar 22 2026
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.57 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Mar 22 2026
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.57 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
After years away, John returns to the house in Bishop Falls where his family once lived and slowly unraveled. As he works to restore the aging porch alongside a quiet, enigmatic painter, memories surface-of a marriage that slipped beyond repair, of children growing up in the wake of that loss, and of the long years spent holding everything together.
Moving between past and present, The Painter traces one man's effort to make sense of what remains, revealing how time, memory, and the places we inhabit shape the lives we carry forward.
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