Her Kind: A Novel

“Sophie Lefens's voice is blazingly original. Her Kind is a poignant and revelatory meditation on motherhood, womanhood, and the friendships that sustain both.This novel will nourish, inspire, and console you-you'll want to stay in it as long as you can.”-T Kira Madden, author of Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls and WhidbeyAn exquisite, mist-laced debut novel about friendship and motherhood, fear and love, in which a woman plagued by visions of being pulled away from Earth invites her three closest friends for a weekend, to see who might care for her son if she diesWhen Ada is left to raise her young son alone, she retreats to her otherworldly aunt Leigh’s crumbling lakeside home, seeking solace for herself and stability for Lenny.Yet, among the wildflowers and the hum of the water, Ada can’t escape the nagging feeling she might not have much time left.Sensing death grow nearer, she invites her three closest friends-a brash, unemployed seamstress; a gentle, disillusioned violini