The Longest Silence
by Margot Sullivan
Two sisters who haven't spoken in seven years meet at their father's funeral in Vermont. The older one runs a restaurant in Portland; the younger one never left their hometown, where she teaches high school biology. They have a week between the funeral and the burial, which means sharing a house and dealing with the thing neither of them has been willing to name. I rewrote the ending four times. My editor rewrote it once more.
Alfred A. Knopf
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