![]() ![]() Dan is less than understanding, though she tells him little. Suspecting that Hannah may exist in real life, Kate compulsively begins to search for clues, signing up for a class in American Sign Language, volunteering with deaf foster children and throwing her existing life into turmoil. ![]() Subsequent dreams introduce her to a daughter, a lovely, deaf piano prodigy named Hannah. But the night of their engagement, Kate has a dream about Patrick so vivid and uncanny that it’s clear-at least to her-that she’s experiencing the life she would have led had Patrick lived. She’s an established music therapist for children, she has the emotional support of a best friend and a close sister, and she’s even poised to move on romantically, accepting a proposal from her good-on-paper boyfriend, Dan. ![]() Now 40, Kate has never truly recovered, but she has managed to make a decent life for herself. Twelve years ago, Kate Waithman’s husband, Patrick, died suddenly in a car accident. Harmel ( The Sweetness of Forgetting, 2013, etc.) takes on relationships, family and loss. ![]()
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