We fill mostly with ourselves the silence the dead leave behind them. In this original, ambitious, and compulsively readable novel, a young woman dies but continues to haunt the daughter she abandoned and the sister she betrayed. The Book of Squirrels is a rich chronicle of guilt, fate, and longing but, above all, the psychological and moral complexities of self-revelation.
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Stephen Johnson is a retired lawyer and businessman. He was born in Portland, Maine, grew up in Gorham, graduated from Washington and Lee University, and participated in the Stonecoast Writers Conference at the University of Southern Maine. He lives in South Portland, Maine, with his wife, Margaret. Mr. Johnson is the author of Those That I Guard, published by Xlibris in 2014.