The Forgotten Roses
Deborah Doucette, 2014
Owl Canyon Press
250 pp.
ISBN-13: 9780991121106
Summary
Rebecca Griffin has everything she could ever want—or so says her big-hearted, opinionated Italian-American family. But now her marriage is unraveling and her teenage daughter is hurtling toward a self-destructive calamity.
While Rebecca struggles to hang onto her husband and save her daughter, she learns of the mysterious death of a young The woman long ago at a local prison. As Rebecca’s mother, Eva, reveals their family’s connection to the girl, Rebecca is drawn into the story—it haunts her. A search for answers takes Rebecca from her small idyllic New England town, to the congested streets of East Boston and the tight-knit Italian neighborhood where many of her family still resides.
As she tries to uncover the facts of the young girl’s life and violent death, the puzzle pieces in Rebecca’s own life begin to take shape and she faces the difficult truth about her husband, Drew. Rebecca, her troubled daughter, Dana, and an enigmatic figure from the past unknowingly embark on a collision course one desperate autumn night when the answers they seek come to light in the most forgotten of places from the most innocent of messengers. (From the publisher.)