“Lynn Steger Strong paints a portrait of familial love that
is real, visceral, and all the more dangerous for being unconditional.” ―Alexandra Kleeman, author of You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine
Maya Taylor, an intense, gifted English professor, has a tendency to
retreat when she is needed most, escaping on long morning runs or
finding comfort in the well-thumbed novels in her library. But when she
sends her daughter Ellie to Florida to care for a friend’s child, it’s
with the best of intentions. Twenty and spiraling, Ellie is lost in a
fog of drugs and men―desperately in need of a fresh start. Her life with
this attractive new family in Florida begins well, but Ellie is
crippled by the fear that she’ll only disappoint those around her . . .
again. And in the sprawling hours of one humid afternoon, she finally
makes a mistake she cannot take back.
The accident hangs over both
mother and daughter as they try to repair their fractured relationship
and find a way to transcend not only their differences but also their
more startling similarities. In Maya’s and Ellie’s echoing narratives,
Lynn Steger Strong creates a searing, unforgettable portrait of familial
love and the tender heartache of motherhood―from the sweltering Florida
heat to the bone-cold of New York in January. Churning toward one
fateful day in two separate timelines, Hold Still is a story of before and after and the impossible distance in between.
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