All her life Ellie Enderlin had been known as Lila’s sister—until the day Lila, a top math student at Stanford, was murdered, and the shape of their family changed forever. Twenty years later, Ellie is a professional coffee buyer who has never put down roots. When, in a chance meeting, she comes into possession of the notebook that Lila carried everywhere, Ellie returns home to finally discover the truth about her sister’s death—a search that will lead her to Lila’s secret lover, to the motives and fate of a man who profited from their family’s grief, and ultimately to the deepest secrets even sisters keep from each other. From the bestselling author of The Year of Fog (“Highly recommended [for fans of] authors like Jodi Picoult and Jacquelyn Mitchard.”—Library Journal [starred review]), this is a riveting family drama about loss, love, and the way hope redefines our lives—a novel at once heartbreaking, provocative, and impossible to put down.
Michelle Richmond grew up in Mobile, Alabama, attended The University of Alabama and the University of Miami, and settled in San Francisco in 1999. Her first book, a collection of linked stories entitled THE GIRL IN THE FALL-AWAY DRESS, was published by University of Massachusetts Press in 2001. Her debut novel, DREAM OF THE BLUE ROOM, was published in 2003, followed by THE YEAR OF FOG (2007) and NO ONE YOU KNOW (2008).
THE YEAR OF FOG went on to become a New York Times bestseller, as well as a major bestseller in France. Richmond has two books coming out in March of 2014, a novel with Bantam and a story collection with Fiction Collective 2. She has received the Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize, the Hillsdale Award for Fiction from the Fellowship of Southern Writers, the Associated Writing Programs Award, and the Mississippi Review Fiction Prize. Visit michellerichmond.com for updates, book giveaways, and links to Michell's facebook, twitter, Pinterest, and Tumblr accounts.
From the author:
"For me, a novel always begins with a place and a character, and unfolds from there. My first two books are rooted in the Southern landscape of my childhood. Without the place out of which they grew, those books would not exist.
My subsequent books--The Year of Fog, No One You Know, and my forthcoming novel--could, in my mind, only take place in the San Francisco Bay Area. San Francisco has been my home for a decade. It's the place that fills my days and my imagination, and it inevitably finds its way into my novels. "
