After the Eclipse : A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Search

from JanaRose1

Sarah woke in the middle of the night to her mother's screams. Paralyzed with fear, she listened as her mother was murdered. Shuffled from relative to relative, Sarah struggled to build a meaningful life. Years later, advances in forensics caught her mother's killer and he stood trial. This was a...

from sprainedbrain

Equal parts true crime and gripping memoir. I had a really hard time putting this book down. Sarah Perry was 12 years old when she awoke in the middle of the night to the sounds of he mother being viciously murdered in the next room. This well-written book is the story of her mom, their lives tog...

from bogopea

This memoir told by Sarah Perry of her mother's murder, while Sarah was a 12 year old hiding in her bedroom but aware of what was being done to her mother is the kitchen, is really unfathomable. It is remarkable that Sarah grew to be 30 years old (the age of her mother when she died), at the time...

from pdebolt

In her memories of life both before and after the brutal murder of her mother, Sarah Perry recounts the harrowing details of her dysfunctional family history, the long search to bring her mother's killer to justice and the loving bond she shared only with her mother. This is an absolutely rivetin...

from nancyjean19

What struck me most about this moving memoir was the way the author so deftly showed the reader how others responded to her, how it made her feel, and how she understood their perspectives. When she felt like an outcast, I felt that way, too. I hadn't thought about how other kids at a school migh...