• Brunonia Barry’s debut novel, The Lace Reader, was an instant New York Times bestseller in hardcover and hit the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Denver Post, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, and IndieNext bestseller lists.

• Barry’s books have been sold to 21 countries.

Zee Finch has come a long way from a motherless childhood spent stealing boats from Salem Harbor—a talent that earned her the name Trouble. She’s now a respected psychotherapist working under world famous specialist Dr. Liz Mattei. She’s also about to marry Michael, one of Boston’s most eligible bachelors—a brilliant game theorist who is paid to predict what people will do. But the suicide of her most troubled patient, Lily Breadon, throws Zee into emotional chaos and takes her back to places she thought she’d left behind.

No one knows of the guilt, the constant “what if” that has plagued Zee since the day her mother, a children’s book author suffering from bipolar disorder, took her own life. No one knows the role she played in her death. Could she have saved her mother—and was she now living proof of her boss’s new theory, that a daughter will always pursue the unfinished dreams of her mother—especially if those dreams were never expressed?

Zee knows the answers are tied to her former patient, Lilly, who shared her mother’s affliction. But why did Lilly kill herself? Immersing herself in the troubled woman’s life, Zee begins to uncover hidden secrets about Lilly and herself—secrets that force her to confront the truth of her mother’s death and the unfinished story she left behind.

A novel rich in atmosphere and color, featuring memorable, engaging characters, The Map of True Places is sure to appeal to readers of The Lace Reader and fans of complex, emotionally gripping fiction.