Family Correspondence — Teresa Miller

Critics and readers alike applauded the release of Teresa Miller's first magnificent novel, Remnants of Glory, which Publishers Weekly called a "...slice of Americana studded with women who are survivors." Now, with her first new novel in more than a decade, Miller has written a thought-provoking and tender examination of the complex relationships between mothers and daughters, the delicate fabric that holds families together.

Family Correspondence is a multi-generational novel beginning in post-WWII Arkansas with fifteen-year old Marie Wallace, a young girl struggling to come to terms with her mother's frailties and the larger-than-life personalities who have shaped her world. A generation later, in modern-day Oklahoma, Marie's daughter, Nora Catron, is suddenly forced to confront her mother's past in the aftermath of a horrible and mysterious accident. Using letters to link the stories of mother and daughter, Teresa Miller skillfully weaves the two into a penetrating and magnificently observed tale. Because ultimately, as Nora realizes, their story is "larger than family correspondence." It is the ongoing and often joyful story of a mother and daughter learning to experience true kinship.