Years after Margaret’s childhood is over and she is a mother herself, she often surfaces from sleep with flares of panic rippling through her. “She always woke into fear,” she confides in the novel.
You see, Margaret’s body has never quite forgotten a violation visited upon her when she was a girl, even as her adult mind is preoccupied with the business of living.
What does the shock wave that altered her girlhood mean for the way Margaret will mother her daughters? Recover from a divorce? Fall in love again?
And what happens when she realizes that her mother must be protected from full knowledge of what’s occurred?
Honor Jones’ terrific new novel “Sleep” is one of the most-anticipated books of the summer.
