Lost in the Forest Miller, Sue

A car accident kills a father and shatters a family in Northern California wine country. What follows is raw and unsettling: a mother spiraling into grief, her daughters left adrift, and one of them—barely a teenager—drawn into a relationship with a much older man that feels inevitable and wrong in equal measure. Sue Miller doesn't flinch from the messiness of trauma or the ways people reach for connection in all the wrong places. The prose is clear-eyed and humane, tracking how loss warps a family's geometry and how each member tries to find solid ground again. This isn't a redemption story; it's something more honest. Miller, author of *The Good Mother*, writes domestic turmoil with uncommon grace. For readers who want fiction that trusts them with difficult truths and characters who feel uncomfortably real.