“It came for my grandmother, as it came for my mother, and now it had come for me. For years, the town of Jasper had been watching me, waiting for the madness to show itself. They didn’t know it was already there, brimming beneath the surface.”
June Farrow’s family has lived in Jasper, North Carolina for generations. The women in June’s family are known for their flower farm, and they’re known for the curse that has affected them. They remember June’s mother, Susanna, who disappeared when she was pregnant, only to leave the baby with her mother and disappear for good.
June took care of her grandmother in the last years of her life, her memories disappearing. But even before her grandmother died, June was already seeing and hearing things, and experiencing memories she doesn’t recall occurring. She knows the time will come when she will need to be cared for, and that is why she’s always pushed the idea of love and children away.
After her grandmother dies, June finds a photograph that sends her reeling. She tracks down a few other clues to try and figure out what is happening to her, and then she realizes that the door she’s been seeing isn’t a hallucination: it’s real. She can walk through it. But when she does, what she finds could change both the past and the future, and make her realize what she truly wants.
I thought this was truly beautiful and so moving. I’m a huge fan of magical realism and time loops, so the book worked for me completely. Adrienne Young is an incredibly talented storyteller, that’s for sure!!
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