Overview

When Sarah Perry was twelve, she saw a partial eclipse of the sun, an event she took as a sign of good fortune for her and her mother, Crystal. But that brief moment of darkness ultimately foreshadowed a much larger one: two days later, Crystal was murdered in their home in rural Maine, just a few feet from Sarah's bedroom. The killer escaped unseen; it would take the police twelve years to find him, time in which Sarah grew into adulthood, struggling with abandonment, police interrogations, and the effort of rebuilding her life when so much had been lost. Through it all she would dream of the eventual trial, a conviction--all her questions finally answered. But after the trial, Sarah's questions only grew. She wanted to understand her mother's life, not just her final hours, and so she began a personal investigation, one that drew her back to Maine, taking her deep into the abiding darkness of a small American town. Told in searing prose, After the Eclipse is a luminous memoir of uncomfortable truth and terrible beauty, an exquisite memorial for a mother stolen from her daughter, and a blazingly successful attempt to cast light on her life once more.

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""[Perry] is a wonderful writer...Beauty and tenderness rise up through the darkness...[She] succeeds in restoring her mother's humanity, and her own."" -- "" New York Times Book Review"" ""[Perry] wonderfully evokes her mother even as she struggles to unravel the mystery of her death...Perry's memoir is a testament to one child's ability to survive the unspeakable, one woman's ability to recapture what was lost, and a fascinating small-town mystery with breathtaking revelations at the end."" -- ""Publishers Weekly (starred review)"" ""Emily Woo Zeller expertly narrates Sarah Perry's memoir... Zeller builds real people with credible emotions...What could be better than a listening experience combining masterful writing, a riveting story, and a superb narration? Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award."" -- ""AudioFile"" ""Heartbreaking yet hopeful."" -- "" Marie Claire"" ""Stunning."" -- ""Entertainment Weekly""

Emily Woo Zeller expertly narrates Sarah Perry's memoir... Zeller builds real people with credible emotions...What could be better than a listening experience combining masterful writing, a riveting story, and a superb narration? Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award. -- AudioFile Heartbreaking yet hopeful. -- Marie Claire Stunning. -- Entertainment Weekly [Perry] is a wonderful writer...Beauty and tenderness rise up through the darkness...[She] succeeds in restoring her mother's humanity, and her own. -- New York Times Book Review [Perry] wonderfully evokes her mother even as she struggles to unravel the mystery of her death...Perry's memoir is a testament to one child's ability to survive the unspeakable, one woman's ability to recapture what was lost, and a fascinating small-town mystery with breathtaking revelations at the end. -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Author Information

Sarah Perry holds an M.F.A. in nonfiction from Columbia University, where she served as publisher of Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art and was a member of the journal's nonfiction editorial board. She is the recipient of a Writers' Fellowship from the Edward F. Albee Foundation and a Javits Fellowship from the U.S. Department of Education, and has attended residencies at Norton Island in Maine and PLAYA in Oregon. Perry's prose has appeared in Blood & Thunder magazine and Bluestockings Literary Journal. She lives in Brooklyn. Emily Woo Zeller began her voice-over career by voicing animation in Asia. She returned to the United States in 2009 and found a natural fit as an audiobook narrator. Described by AudioFile magazine as doing ""an extraordinary job of varying the voices in the dialogue without losing the intimacy of the story,"" Emily's multilingual, multicultural framework brings a particularly unique, clear-eyed, and intimate perspective into Asian American narratives. While she specializes in Asian American narratives, Emily's work spans a broad spectrum, including young adult fiction and such titles as The Whites of Their Eyes by Jill Lepore and The Sex Diaries Project by Arianne Cohen. She also narrated Gulp by Mary Roach, for which she won an AudioFile Earphones Award.

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