num_pages: 379
description: When her father falls into a coma Indian American photographer Sonya reluctantly returns to the family shed fled years before. Since she left home Sonya has lived on the run free of any ties while her soft-spoken sister Trisha has created a perfect suburban life and her ambitious sister Marin has built her own successful career. But as these women come together their various methods of coping with a terrifying history can no longer hold their memories at bay.Buried secrets rise to the surface as their fatherthe victim of humiliating racism and perpetrator of horrible violenceremains unconscious. As his condition worsens the daughters and their mother wrestle with private hopes for his survival or death as well as their own demons and buried secrets. Told with forceful honesty Trail of Broken Wings reveals the burden of shame and secrets the toxicity of cruelty and aggression and the exquisite liberating power of speaking and owning truth.
language: English
title: Trail of Broken Wings
publisher: Lake Union Publishing