Morning Will Come
Alan and Audrey Taylor are an ordinary married couple raising three children and coping with the demands of busy careers when the unthinkable happens: their eldest daughter, Isabel, on the verge of precocious womanhood, goes missing in the middle of the night. Thus begins this intimate portrait of a barely functioning family as Alan, Audrey and their two young sons are left to decipher the mysteries of how to go on living and loving––in the aftermath of violence and loss. A haunting, sometimes raw exploration of grief, What Things We Could Recover is also by turns humorous and sexy, exploring the bonds of brotherhood and the redemptive power of love.
BUY ON BOOKSHOP.ORGBUY ON INDIEBOUND“Billy Lombardo's exquisite first novel shows us a fractured family the only way it can accurately be shown––through a fractured lens. The sorrow and honesty of this wise book is almost unbearable, but it's literature's best kind of unbearable, built upon a foundation of generosity, heart, and masterful craft.”
— Patrick Somerville, author of The Cradle, (TV) Maniac, The Leftovers, Station Eleven
“Billy Lombardo is a bard for those of us who feel too much, and a master of somehow translating the untranslatable emotion into gesture, into language. Lombardo’s characters are unified by their profound connections to one another and their utter fearlessness—or rather Lombardo’s utter fearlessness—to feel deeply. We do not, as American readers and publishers, have been taught to avoid sentiment like the plague. Thank the gods of literature that Billy Lombardo was not listening.”
— Gina Frangello, author of Blow Your House Down: A Story of Family, Feminism, and Treason
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