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Debut Novel: Slowly and All at Once

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No matter how old we get, we’re always coming of age.

Nina and her mother Lillian navigate a bumpy road as two elders—a daughter starting her sixth decade, a mother starting her ninth—a path complicated by Lillian’s deteriorating cognition.

After Nina retires to care for her father Cal in his final year, she struggles with the often tense and impersonal relationship she has with her mother Lillian, a social activist who has always put the cause above all else—even her own daughters.

Set against the backdrop of the COVID pandemic, Nina and Lillian must navigate grief, isolation, and their strained mother-daughter relationship as Nina steps into Lillian’s life more each day to help keep her safe from herself, often to Lillian’s disapproval.

With Lillian’s dementia increasingly evident, Nina protectively conceals her mother’s condition from her activist friends, unaware of the potential consequences.