Overview

After the death of his partner, Ira, reclusive writer Virgil Channing has spent a decade hidden inside a crumbling lakeside house, living half a life and avoiding the manuscript Ira left behind. He's not writing. He's barely surviving. Then four young strangers arrive at his door-each carrying a mysterious connection to Ira's past and their own private grief. A guarded son searching for answers. A gentle caregiver with a loss of her own. An anxious prodigy on the brink. A firebrand hiding fear behind humor. They claim the house belongs to them through Ira's old trust. They insist on staying. And suddenly Virgil's carefully constructed loneliness begins to crack. When a storm traps them together, Virgil gives them a task meant to reveal the one truth they're all running from: Write a letter for the day you might choose to give up. The assignment ignites a chain reaction of confession, confrontation, and emotional collapse-forcing Virgil to reckon with his own unfinished grief. In the basement, buried among Ira's belongings, he finds a letter addressed only to him... and the missing key to finishing Ira's final story. To save the four who upended his quiet life-and to save himself-Virgil must step out of the house where he's been dying in slow motion and choose the world again. A Soft Mourning is a deeply emotional, hauntingly beautiful novel about grief, found family, and the extraordinary ways love echoes through the people we meet long after loss.

Full Product Details

9798276492049

Table of Contents

Reviews

Author Information

Tab Content 6

Countries Available