A darkly magical novel about a mysterious family members legacy, the bonds of sisterhood, and the strange and powerful methods we are shaped from the places we call home, from the critically acclaimed author of Shallow Graves.

For the first eight many years of her life, a unique apple orchard in Vermont is Sorrow Lovegood’s whole world. The land has been passed on through generations of brave, resilient women, and while their offbeat behaviors may be ridiculed by additional townspeople-especially about The Memory Trees their neighbours, the Abrams family-Sorrow and her family members take satisfaction in its unusual history.

Then one wintertime evening, an unthinkable tragedy adjustments everything. In the aftermath, Sorrow can be sent to Miami to live with her dad, from the only house she’s ever known.

Now 16, Sorrow’s memories of her life in Vermont are maddeningly hazy. She returns to the orchard for the summer, determined for more information about her stressed childhood as well as the family she remaining eight years ago. But it soon becomes apparent that some of her questions possess difficult-even dangerous-answers. And there may be a price to cover asking.