New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2019). SIGNED first edition - The author's second novel, a story of family and the bonds that hold them together. "When the renowned poet Fiona Skinner is asked about the inspiration behind her iconic work, The Love Poem, she tells her audience a story about her family and a betrayal that reverberates through time. It begins in a big yellow house with a funeral, an iron poker, and a brief variation forever known as the Pause: a free and feral summer in a middle-class Connecticut town. . . Two decades later, the siblings find themselves once again confronted with a family crisis that tests the strength of these bonds and forces them to question the life choices theyve made." SIGNED on the title page and dated in 2018 (that is, before publication) 352 pp.