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A family’s silence, forty years in the making
J.E. Konnor is trading her upscale life in the D.C. suburbs for a quiet cottage on Maryland’s Eastern Shore — and racing against a diagnosis that is stealing her memory one detail at a time.”
Forty years ago, her daughter Margaret ran away and never came back. J.E. knows exactly why. She is the only one who does. And as the past begins slipping through her fingers along with everything else, she realizes she cannot take the reason to her grave.”
With her closest friend, Ann, and her granddaughter, Teresa, at her side, J.E. spends a summer on the water — rebuilding a garden, rebuilding a story, and working up the courage to finally tell it. When the family gathers for their annual Fourth of July celebration, the silence breaks at last. What follows is a phone call, an apology, and a long drive from Snow Hill, Maryland to Phoenix, Arizona — the first step toward a family that might, finally, come home.Since our inception, we have advanced organizations across sectors by pairing strategic insight with disciplined execution.
Meet the Characters
Cautiously optimistic, fiercely private, and always three steps ahead. J.E. built a life on control and on a secret she never planned to tell.
J.E. Konnor (The Matriarch)
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Old-money Philadelphia, effortlessly warm. Sixty years of friendship taught her exactly when to laugh, when to listen, and when to simply show up.
Ann (The Best Friend)
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Twenty-five, whip-smart, and more like her grandmother than either of them will admit — right down to the things she isn’t saying either.