WHAT ENDURES: Book Three of the Still Point Trilogy

For forty-four years, Grace Li was one of two people who knew what happened on that hospital floor. Now the other one is dead.In the spring of 1980, a young nurse saw something she was told never to say aloud - and spent the rest of her life trying, and failing, to be heard. Twice the record closed over her words like water over a stone. Now, with the last living witness gone and her own time running short, Grace does the only thing left to her: she writes it all down for her daughter - and folds into the pages a single seed of the plant her family has carried across four generations and three countries.What Endures is the final volume of the Still Point Trilogy: the story of what a dying woman hands to the living, and what they choose to do with it. As a long-buried case reaches a courtroom at last, her family gathers around her in a barn in Ohio - Frank at his bench, building the thing meant to outlast him; Rebecca learning to be the one who stays; a scattered family drawn home for one more winter. Some debts are settled in that courtroom. Others can only be paid in a kitchen, over tea, in the quiet work no verdict can finish.It is a novel about caregiving and conscience, testimony and inheritance, and the small green living thing that keeps growing whether or not anyone is left to tend it - a meditation on what we owe the dead, what we hand to the young, and what, after the trials and the burials and the long silences, actually endures.The Still Point Trilogy: The Still Point - What Holds - What Endures