What Remains

About this book

Five brothers and sisters grow into strikingly different people despite sharing one home and broadly equal treatment. Their father works two shifts to secure a decent life for the family, remaining patient, affectionate, and closely involved through good times and hardship alike. Their mother carries the relentless weight of cooking, washing, cleaning, and caring for a household of seven, yet remains distant from much of her children's inner lives. What Remains examines the quiet divisions that can form beneath a common upbringing and the emotional labor, sacrifice, and misunderstanding that determine what a family preserves—and what it loses.