“Smart, gorgeously written, and fabulously unsettling. Donohoe’s novel is about a twelve-year-old girl who vanishes during a parade, and how years later, her tormented best friend struggles to find out what really happened to her and why. About the enduring bonds of friendship, the garotte of secrets, and the most important story of all: how we live and how we die. ”
Caroline Leavitt
NYTimes bestselling author of Pictures of You and Cruel Beautiful World
“This riveting first novel takes readers from the 19th-century Irish potato famine to 21st-century New York City through the lives of six generations of women in an Irish American family of firefighters... Admirers of Pete Hamill and Kate Atkinson will appreciate this gripping and intimate novel, as well as those who want an absorbing multigenerational read.”
Library Journal, Starred review