A fierce, tender novel about grief, memory, and the powerful bond between mothers and daughters.

Nineteen-year-old Eunice’s life is suddenly interrupted when she learns that her mother, Jane, is dead, found drowned in a river after leaving a nightclub. The police rule it an accident, but Eunice isn’t so sure. A red notebook, discovered in a hair salon, suggests there’s more to her mother’s story—cryptic initials, clues, fragments of a life Eunice never fully knew. As she begins to unravel the mystery, she’s forced to confront long-buried family secrets and the painful gaps in her own understanding of who her mother was. 

Eunice is a novel about the fierce bond of sisterhood, complex legacies passed down through generations, and the transformative power of forgiveness. It poignantly touches on the power of awakening to tenderness and the hard-won grace of letting go, written in rhythmic, lyrical prose that bears the mark of author Lisette Lombé’s background in slam poetry.

Lisette Lombé is a Belgian multidisciplinary artist, poet, and performer, known for blending activism with art. Co-founder of the L-SLAM collective, she was named Belgium’s National Poet for 2024–2025. Teresa Lavender Fagan is a freelance translator living in Chicago who has published more than forty translations, including J. M. G. Le Clézio’s The Mexican Dream.

1.Cutting Off
2.Mending
3.Healing
4.Living