"A fictional account of a doctor in post-Civil War Louisiana who exposes the head of a women's asylum as a fraud and a murderer, built around themes of mysogyny and racism"--Provided by publisher.

This poignant and heartbreaking novel explores the power of resilience, the gift of friendship, and the divine beauty to be found in the big, bright world-if only we're willing to look. Pennsylvania, 1940s. The only life Brighton Friedrich has ever known is the one she has endured within the dreary walls of Riverside Home-the rural asylum where she was born. A nurse, Joann, has educated and raised Brighton, whose mother is a patient at the hospital....

"Hoping to connect with others who also had a lost night they can't remember, Pallas, after receiving a tip on her podcast, travels to a small college town to explore an abandoned asylum where she helps her mysterious tipster investigate a murder that isconnected to them both"--