AUDREY KALMAN

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What Remains Unsaid is about the stories we can’t imagine behind the faces we think we know—and how sometimes even the promise of forgiveness may fail to save the ones we love.

In a placid California suburb, a mother ends up at the wrong end of her son’s Colt .45.

Sean has taken Ginny hostage in her kitchen. “I don’t want to hurt you,” he says. “I want you to listen for once.”

While Ginny squirms in the ladderback chair, wrists chafing against the rope, lunch spoiling on the counter, Sean chronicles the thousand ways he has suffered and demands answers from his mother. Ginny watches him pace. After thirty years of missed connections, how have they arrived here?

Finally, coaxed by fear and desperation, she shares the secret at the center of their family. But will her revelation come too late?

If you enjoy introspective reads that will make you evaluate your own life circumstances, this book is for you.

— Carrie Rubin, Author of The Bone Curse, Eating Bull, and The Seneca Scourge

Beautiful turns of phrase and enlightening descriptions set among all the personal twists. Expect to turn pages quickly.

— Elise Miller, Author of The Berkeley Girl

I started this book at the gym… and read it steady for two days. This is a book to get lost in.

— Martin Sorensen, Founder, Sand Hill Review Magazine

A meditation on the tragedy and hope of the human condition… an original and compelling novel by skilled novelist Audrey Kalman that will prove to be an enduringly popular addition to community library General Fiction collections.