Seeking Glory: a Novel About Relationships, Loss, and Finding Your Way Home

Life is never static. Just when you think you finally have everything under control, that illusion is shattered…and the life you once knew has spun off in unimaginable directions.Kate LaRue is a divorced, successful co-owner of an art and gift store on Cape Cod whose current life has been largely peaceful, well ordered and without undue daily stress. That is, until she receives a phone call saying her long-missing daughter Ally is seriously ill in a hospital in California. After Ally dies with her mother by her side, Kate assumes custody of Glory, the four-year-old granddaughter she never knew she had; however, she soon discovers that Glory is selectively mute and seemingly traumatized. To help her, Kate must try to solve the mystery of what happened to both her granddaughter and her daughter but to do so she must reconnect with family and friends she hasn’t seen or wanted to see in years. What Kate finds leads her to reexamine her life, her relationships, and what she truly believes. Meanwhile she finds she is not the only one seeking Glory.Seeking Glory is an eloquent novel that explores the complexities of family relationships with themes of loss, recovery, estrangement, and reconciliation woven throughout.