On the surface, Frances Pastan is a successful, celebrated, award-winning creator of children's books. But beneath the accolades, she is drowning in alcoholism, alienated from her daughter, and completely paralyzed by decades of repressed trauma. Desperate for closure, Frances steps off her promotional tour and returns to Quiet, California, the small town she left thirty years ago. There, alternating between the fragile present and the memories of her past, she must confront the ghost that fractured her life: the brutal, long-ago murder of her childhood best friend, the fierce and brash Lucy Sparrow. Nominated for the Bram Stoker Award, A Matrix of Angels is a harrowing, beautifully evocative elegy of love, loss, and the devastating architecture of memory.
