When Arthur Rook’s wife, Amy, dies in a freak accident on the movie set she is working on, he suddenly realizes how little he knew about his mysterious wife. Searching through her belongings, he stumbles across a shoebox full of childhood memorabilia and a cryptic postcard to her best friend, Mona, which Amy never sent. Arthur flees Hollywood and his confusion about losing his young wife, to the quaint upstate New York town of Ruby Falls, where Amy grew up. Hoping to learn more about his wife, he moves into the boarding house run by Amy’s childhood best friend, Mona, and her teenage daughter, Oneida, who are themselves mysteries in their hometown because Mona has never disclosed who Oneida’s father was after she and Amy ran away as teenagers and Mona came back to town with an infant. Arthur soon realizes that maybe childhood secrets aren’t meant to be exposed.In this debut novel by Racculia, a writer who grew up in Syracuse and uses the area in her book, Amy’s world is slowly uncovered by everyone who knew her. The truth about who Oneida’s parents are is easy to guess, but doesn’t distract from the story. Through vivid characters that you grow attached to you, this quirky yet complex novel perfectly explores grief, love, humor, and hope and makes readers wish Racculia would write more in the years to come.
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