As aged Maureen Murphy lays dying in a New York hospital and her three grown children maintain a weary vigil, their lives unfold in a tapestry of remembrance and reflection through the turbulent decades of the postwar era. Missing is a fourth sibling: Michaela, whose polio death in 1953 colors everything that follows. Michaela is a stunning debut in the spirit of Colm Tóibín and Alice McDermott.
