Thank you to the author, Lake Union Publishing and NetGalley, for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.This family drama is centered around a young woman who, after suffering the breakdown of her long-term relationship and the death of her father, goes through emotional turmoil and loses her job as well as her equilibrium. In an effort to make a fresh start and support her ailing grandmother, she moves to a small town in the southern US, and gets wrapped up in a cliffhanger of a story she fin...

Thanks to NetGalley and Lake Union Publishing for an egalley in exchange for an honest review. Emily Bleeker's latest novel tells the story of two women- Hannah, a journalist looking for a second chance while living with her paternal grandmother, and Evelyn, a young woman in the 1930's seeking to bring to light the identity of the person who shot her. I liked this story but I felt a little distant from all the events and it took me 3 days to finish it. Evelyn's story was by far my favorite of

"Woke." Political. I don't usually wrote reviews but I felt mislead and want to let others know this book has political undertones....I found the main character extremely unlikable, and the author's goal of showing how "woke" she is ruined what could have been a cute story. I enjoy many books that tackle race issues, but this wasn't one of them. It really felt like the author tried too hard.

Hannah had an awesome career working at the Chicago Tribune. Then everything started crumbling around her. She uproots her life and finds herself in small-town Mississippi helping to take care of her grandma. She also finds a job at the small local paper, which is quite a bit different from The Trib. Her first major responsibility is to digitize the paper's old files from the 1930s, a crap job for a reporter for sure. Can you imagine? UGH! While sorting through the paperwork, she finds some old

Hannah has gone to Senatobia, Mississippi to look after her grandmother. She has been dumped, lost her job at the Chicago Tribune and is now working at a tiny paper in Senatobia. While cleaning up the archives she comes across articles written to the editor by a teen named Evelyn almost a century ago and Hannah decides to investigate. What follows is a wonderful story or family secrets and history.The first couple chapters of this book started a little slow for me but once Evelyn's

Favorite Quotes:My mama always said that you need to let people have whatever fiction makes their life tolerable. And I agree. There’s no use in churning up the past.This man could make her feel like this— like a shook-up bottle of pop or the time she’d put regular dish soap in the dishwasher in her first apartment instead of dish detergent and the kitchen had flooded with suds.No one from her father’s family had ever said the word depression or suicide—Mamaw’s tolerable fiction was an accident

Thank you UplitReads / Amazon Publishing / Brilliance Audio for the gifted copy.I have been a fan of Emily Bleeker’s books for quite some time now, ever since reading her book Working Fire. I was excited when I saw she had a new one coming out, and that it paired two of my favorite genres – historical fiction and mystery – and I loved it!!!This book grabbed me right from the beginning and once I started it, I found I was totally captivated. The story lines were compelling and had just the right

What’s Left Unsaid by Emily Bleeker is a relationship drama as much as a mystery. Either way, it is a most engrossing read. Hannah’s life as she knows it has imploded in an unexpected fashion. She is a journalist with the Chicago Tribune, that is, before she is summarily released from her position. Because her grandmother has suffered a serious injury, Hannah moves to Senatobia, Mississippi to take care of her while she tries to get her life back together. In order to keep occupied, she gets a j...

The book kept me interested in finding out what had happened to Evelyn and I enjoyed her side being written in letter form. The end of the book had a couple of good twists. Unfortunately, I did not like the main character, Hannah. She is self-indulgent, selfish, and reckless with the feelings and lives of the people around her. Constantly reading about her self-pity in one breath, followed by her "woke" outrage in the next, got irritating after awhile and felt like I was reading a lecture on pri...

A great book based upon on a real woman during the 1930’s who experiences rape, pregnancy, and attempted suicide. Hannah, a suicidal former journalist at the Chicago Tribune moves to a small town in Mississippi to care for her aging grandmother after losing her job and long term boyfriend. While working at the town’s small newspaper she discovers letters to the company which were never published. The letters were written by a young woman confined to a home for the disabled after being paralyzed

Journalist Hannah Williamson, still suffering from a break-up with her live-in boyfriend which resulted in her developing an addiction to prescription drugs and losing her job at the Chicago Tribune as well as suffering a mental breakdown, has landed in Senatobia, Mississippi, to care for her bedridden grandmother. Her boss at the small newspaper where she has secured a job tasks her with the job of digitizing the newspaper's archives where she comes across a series of letters, written in the 19...

How far would you go to uncover a secret that's not even yours? Even if it was decades old? This book is unputdownable. It kept me at the edge of my seat and I completely devoured it. I loved how we learn to discover Hannah while she is working through her emotional wounds in her own way. She is trying to move forward, and Evelyn's story could very much help her do so.But the road to recovery is not an easy one. It is full of ups and downs, and this book demonstrates it so well. Everything felt

PainfulI normally like Bleeker's novels, but reading this one was a chore. Hannah's obsession with Alex is just plain annoying. I got tired of reading his name, and it made Hannah's character unlikable. On top of that, several scenes were hard to believe, like a cell phone that won't work because it was in Hannah's back pocket during a rainstorm. Fifteen minutes in the rain and days in rice, and the phone won't work? Ten months without a word from Alex, and he texts when the phone miraculously s...

Finding the truth is far easier than accepting its aftermath. It doesn't always settle in the right places.Emily Bleeker introduces us to a highly complicated, sometimes thorny-edged, deeply flawed main character. I have to put that out there. Hannah Williamson is wrapped tightly in a webby cocoon of her own makings. Perhaps she has just been programmed genetically to sometimes topple when life leans hard. Either way, Hannah seems to elbow her way into tough situations and then discovers that th...

My first book by this author, Emily Bleeker, and I was pleased with both the writing style and the pace at which the story unfolded. The two primary characters, Hannah and Evelyn, each had healing to do; one was emotional healing and the other physical. As they did so, we saw more of the story of their lives appear and the reasons for their reticence and armor that they wore. Hannah has moved from Chicago to Mississippi - not something I would want to do - in order to care for her grandmother, E...

Special thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for a free, electronic ARC of this novel received in exchange for an honest review. Expected publication date: July 27, 2021 After the death of her father, the breakdown of a long-term relationship and an addiction that led to the loss of her job and a failed suicide attempt, Hannah Williamson agrees to return to her father’s hometown in Mississippi to care for her aging grandmother, and try and get her own life back on track. While working at

An easy to read compelling story - with a story within a story.The MC is Hannah - and she is in a rough patch of her life. She's back with her grandma, taking care of her while she's recovering from an injury. She's recently split with a long term boyfriend and lost her job and fled Chicago. She's back in a small town and working for a small town paper. She's not terribly happy and the beginning is just a bit slow.Hannah is digging through archives at her small town paper and stumbles on some pa...

Solid Work of Fiction. This is a difficult one. There is *so much* "white people are evil" "racial discussion" through the first 2/3 of the book that at the time it looked like it would be my first *ever* 4* review for this author (and I've reviewed *all* of her prior books, either after publication or, as in this case, as advance reader copies). That noted, it *did* have a couple of moments of calling out the white guilt in ways I've often wanted to scream myself. Between these moments and the

Unfortunately this book didn’t do it for me. It seemed to take forever to get into this story. This is the first book I’ve read by Emily Bleeker and I was really looking forward to it. I felt too much time was taken in the beginning going over time and again all of the main character, Hannah Williamson’s personal weaknesses. The most interesting parts of the book were Evelyn’s letters that had been written to the paper Hannah writes for. There’s a dual timeline here of present day with Hannah an...

What a great, complex, beautiful story of one woman's history of who shot and paralyzed her and why. Hannah Williamson is a journalist who was let go from her job in Chicago so she moved to Mississippi to care for her elderly 91 year old grandmother, Mamaw. Hannah obtains a job and comes across an Emily Kensley's written documents that contain the mystery to her being shot many years previously. Hannah wonders what happened and begins to read and investigate and it becomes very interesting and m...