Final Belongings - Paperback

by Sarah Beauchemin (Author)

Juliet and Henry never met. Yet their lives resonate across generations when Juliet finds a photo with an urgent message in her uncle Henry's final belongings.

"[A] refreshingly original work of fiction...a bewitchingly dark tale, as emotionally engrossing as it is boldly unconventional." -Kirkus Reviews

Juliet Barton is reeling from a brutal divorce and her career in shambles. Then she's rocked by her mother's sudden death. Buried in grief as she sorts her late mother's effects, Juliet stumbles upon the final belongings of her uncle Henry, who died tragically in Italy in 1971.

Hidden among Henry's effects is an old Polaroid of a mausoleum with a mysterious note scrawled on the back. As Juliet unearths more and more details that reveal her and Henry's uncanny similarities, she finds herself compelled to go to Italy to locate the crypt in the photo, convinced it contains something Henry wanted to be found.

But as she tracks down clues to her twenty-something uncle's cutting-edge filmmaking in Hollywood, renowned coverage of The Vietnam War, and link to a 1960s rock icon, Juliet uncovers a haunting truth that pushes her into the line of danger.

Will unraveling Henry's hidden past put Juliet's own future at risk?

In this brilliantly compelling, suspenseful, and intoxicating tale told through the interwoven narratives of Juliet in the present-day and Henry decades ago, Final Belongings navigates the trauma of estrangement across generations, the secrets we bury, and the things we try to escape at any cost.