Un asunto de familia

Dawn is a young wife and mother who feels her life slowly slipping away. Everything changes when she meets Hazel, her new neighbor: an immediate connection sparks between them, as luminous as it is forbidden. But in an era that doesn't forgive women who deviate from the socially accepted script, happiness comes at a price. Forty years later, Maggie, a mother of two, is going through a personal crisis. When her father, Heron, receives a terminal diagnosis, the past comes crashing back: the truths she was told about her mother—her silence, her supposed abandonment—begin to crumble. Shoplifters, Claire Lynch's acclaimed debut, intertwines two eras and two generations to explore the weight of choices, the complexity of affection, and the scars of stigma. With delicate and courageous prose, Lynch denounces the plight of lesbians in the 1980s and, at the same time, celebrates the power of forgiveness, the resilience of love, and the bonds that endure even after pain.