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One woman's path to rediscovering herself through music, romance, and a little vigilantism
Inside Half Moon Bay, a sparkling California coastal town, Ester Prynn is dulled and diminished by struggles with work, money, marriage, her senile father, a troubled teenage son, and old guilt she can't assuage. When a masked gunman robs the convenience store where Ester works, he upends her fraught life and propels her toward passions buried, like singing; desires discovered, like a same-sex infatuation; and wrongs righted, like bringing the violent assailant to justice. But as the armed robber commits new crimes and continues to evade capture, the trauma from the holdup climbs, threatening Ester's newfound delights and longings and forcing her to contend with her burning regrets and what-ifs. In the reckoning between Ester and these growing, molten upsets, she's faced with enormous choices and must determine what and who can bring her to her best life.
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Ethel Rohan, born and raised in Ireland, is the author of two story collections, Goodnight Nobody and Cut through the Bone, the former long-listed for the Edge Hill Short Story Prize and the latter long-listed for the Story Prize. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, World Literature Today, Guernica magazine, Tin House Online, the Rumpus, and many more.