Courtney Elizabeth Mauk is the author of the novels Orion's Daughters and Spark. She lives in New York City with her husband and son.
“Can we ever let our children go? That’s the question that Courtney
Elizabeth Mauk asks in her riveting novel The Special Power of
Restoring Lost Things. Heartbreaking in its close observation of
how each person’s grief is a world unto itself, Mauk’s novel
plunges us into loss but also reveals—in tense, evocative prose—the
ways grief connects us through its filaments of need. We learn what
it’s like to miss something so intensely—through fragments of past
conversations that mingle with the present and, in one exquisitely
drawn scene, through the brushing of an absent daughter’s hair—that
we can almost cross that thin, forbidden membrane that separates
the living and the dead.” —Scott Blackwood, author of See How
Small
“The Special Power of Restoring Lost Things is a compelling
portrait of a family caught in a terrible limbo. Mauk draws her
characters with insight and sensitivity, weaving a suspenseful tale
of a young woman’s disappearance and the chaos and pain left in her
wake. A chilling, beautiful novel.” —Cari Luna, author of The
Revolution of Every Day
“A wise, moving, and suspenseful tale of a New York family
struggling to cope in the aftermath of trauma, The Special Power of
Restoring Lost Things reveals chilling complexities of maternal
love and parental loss.” —Helen Klein Ross, author of What Was
Mine
“The Special Power of Restoring Lost Things deftly examines the
emotional and psychological repercussions for a family left behind
by a disappeared daughter. Courtney Elizabeth Mauk paints a
powerful portrait of grief, dread, distrust,
and—ultimately—redemption as mother, father, and brother try to
make sense of a bereft world.” —Miranda Beverly-Whittemore, author
of June and New York Times bestseller Bittersweet
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