said near the end.
Half asleep, talking about horses in one of her books escaping from a burning barn, she said they looked more beautiful afterward with soot still on them.
From Ashes.
She named it.
She just didn’t know.
From Ashes came out on a Tuesday in spring, almost exactly one year after Kora died.
For the first two weeks, it did what most small-press books do.
Almost nothing.
Then a mother with a large online following, a woman who had lost a child herself, read it and posted
