In the Aftermath
Book Feature - In the Aftermath by Jane Ward
HBL Note: IN THE AFTERMATH by Jane Ward is about a baker whose business partner and husband commits suicide in the midst of the 2008 lending bubble. As the title suggests, it explores the lives of those involved including his wife, daughter, the investigator, and individual who called in the loan in the aftermath of his suicide, and the ripple effect of it all. Jane Ward draws from her experience as a former baker to really bring this book to life. Scroll down to read more about IN THE AFTERMATH by Jane Ward.
Book Feature - In the Aftermath by Jane Ward
Book Feature - In the Aftermath by Jane Ward
From the publisher:
When David Herron—overwhelmed and despairing, his family’s business and finances in ruin due to the bursting lending bubble of 2008—takes his own life one chilly spring morning, he has no idea the ripple effect his decision will set into motion.
Two years later, his widow, Jules, is now an employee of the bakery she and David used to own—and still full of bitterness over David’s lies, perceived cowardice, and ultimate abandonment of her and their now-teenage daughter, Rennie. Rennie, meanwhile, struggles socially at school, resents her work-obsessed mother, and is convinced she’s to blame for her father’s death.
When Denise, the former police detective who worked (and, due to her own personal struggles at the time, mishandled) David’s case, catches sight of Rennie at her sons’ school, she’s struck by the girl’s halo of sadness—and becomes obsessed with attempting to right the wrongs she believes she perpetrated two years ago.
And as all this unfolds in Boston, Daniel, the guilt-ridden young man who, in his old life as a banker, helped create the circumstances that led to David’s suicide, continues to punish himself for his sins by living half a life, working odd jobs and bouncing from one US city to another, never staying long enough to make friends or build something lasting.
Ultimately, each of these very different people—all of them tied together by one tragic event—must learn in their own way how to say good-bye to the past and move into a brighter future.
Book Feature - In the Aftermath by Jane Ward
