To the Bridge
A Novel
From the bestselling author of Mistakes to Run With, a heartrending tale of a mother hell-bent on saving her family after her daughter's suicide attempt—despite the destruction it might mean for herself.
When Rose’s seventeen-year-old daughter, Juliet, attempts suicide, she does everything she can to hold her family together despite the inevitable unraveling that follows. Her husband Syd thinks their daughter is fine, that she’s going through a phase, and tells Rose she’s overreacting—as do the doctors, the school principal, and even Juliet herself. But Rose knows her daughter better than anyone. Doesn’t she?
Rose and Juliet begin to drift apart and then fade into each other until they aren’t sure who’s saving whom—or if they’re…
YASUKO THANH’s story collection Floating Like the Dead was shortlisted for the Danuta Gleed Award and the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize and named a Quill & Quire Best Book of the Year. Mysterious Fragrance of the Yellow Mountains, her debut novel, won the Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Prize for Fiction, the City of Victoria Butler Book Prize, and was nominated for the Amazon First Novel Award. Thanh’s memoir, Mistakes to Run With, was a national bestseller and a finalist for the Jim Deva Prize for Writing that Provokes in the 2020 BC and Yukon Book Prizes. She lives in Victoria, B.C.