For forty-four years, Grace Li was one of two people who knew what happened on that hospital floor. Now the other one is dead.
In the spring of 1980, a young nurse saw something she was told never to say aloud — and spent the rest of her life trying, and failing, to be heard. Twice the record closed over her words like water over a stone. Now, with the last living witness gone and her own time running short, Grace does the only thing left to her: she writes it all down for her daughter — and folds into the pages a single seed of the plant her family has carried across four generations and three countries.
What Endures is the final volume of the Still Point Trilogy: the story of what a dying woman hands to the living, and what they choose to do with it. As a long-buried case reaches a courtroom at last, her family gathers around her in a barn in Ohio — Frank at his bench, building the thing meant to outlast him; Rebecca learning to be the one who stays; a scattered family drawn home for one more winter. Some debts are settled in that courtroom. Others can only be paid in a kitchen, over tea, in the quiet work no verdict can finish.
It is a novel about caregiving and conscience, testimony and inheritance, and the small green living thing that keeps growing whether or not anyone is left to tend it — a meditation on what we owe the dead, what we hand to the young, and what, after the trials and the burials and the long silences, actually endures.
The Still Point Trilogy: The Still Point · What Holds · What Endures
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - For forty-four years, Grace Li was one of two people who knew what happened on that hospital floor. Now the other one is dead.In the spring of 1980, a young nurse saw something she was told never to say aloud - and spent the rest of her life trying, and failing, to be heard. Twice the record closed over her words like water over a stone. Now, with the last living witness gone and her own time running short, Grace does the only thing left to her: she writes it all down for her daughter - and folds into the pages a single seed of the plant her family has carried across four generations and three countries.What Endures is the final volume of the Still Point Trilogy: the story of what a dying woman hands to the living, and what they choose to do with it. As a long-buried case reaches a courtroom at last, her family gathers around her in a barn in Ohio - Frank at his bench, building the thing meant to outlast him; Rebecca learning to be the one who stays; a scattered family drawn home for one more winter. Some debts are settled in that courtroom. Others can only be paid in a kitchen, over tea, in the quiet work no verdict can finish.It is a novel about caregiving and conscience, testimony and inheritance, and the small green living thing that keeps growing whether or not anyone is left to tend it - a meditation on what we owe the dead, what we hand to the young, and what, after the trials and the burials and the long silences, actually endures.The Still Point Trilogy: The Still Point - What Holds - What Endures. Artikel-Nr. 9798198291027
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