Family loss often leaves behind more than grief. It can leave rooms people avoid, names no one explains, objects that suddenly feel charged, and questions that surface only after someone is gone.
Mike Bassett builds the story of The Quiet Weight of Wings from that uneasy space. The novel follows seventeen-year-old Grace Harper after her mother’s death, then draws her into a series of discoveries that turn private grief into a search for memory, identity, and the parts of family history that have stayed hidden.
A Grief Story With Questions Beneath It
Grace begins the novel inside a house shaped by silence. Her mother is gone, her father withdraws into work, and her brother retreats into music, leaving Grace to carry questions no one around her seems ready to answer.
