Between Goodbye and Forever: What the Wipe Couldn't Erase
What the wipe couldn't erase...
When Nora Whitfield returns to her late grandfather's crumbling house on the shores of Lake Superior, she expects thirty days of sorting, selling, and saying goodbye. What she doesn't expect is the man standing in the kitchen, stirring a pot of wild rice soup.
His name is Ansel. He has kind eyes, silver at his temples, and a smile that reaches them. He also happens to be a rented care unit a machine designed to comfort the dying and his lease expires in thirty days.
Nora knows she shouldn't get attached. She knows he's a product, that his memory will be wiped, that he'll be reset and reassigned to a new client who will never know he existed. But as the autumn leaves burn along Minnesota Avenue and the ore boats slide through the canal, she discovers something the engineers never intended: Ansel has learned to feel. He notices her. He remembers her. He loves her in the only way a machine can.
And when the company comes to take him back, Nora faces an impossible choice: let him go, or fight for a love that no court will recognize and no contract will protect.
Spanning one impossible autumn and the long winter that follows, Somewhere Between Goodbye and Forever is a luminous, heart-wrenching novel about grief and second chances, about what it means to be human, and about the stubborn, unwipeable truth that some things some people leave a mark that can never be erased.
For readers of Klara and the Sun and The Time Traveler's Wife, this is a love story for anyone who has ever wondered: what stays, when everything else is taken away?
"It isn't forever, Nora. It's just somewhere in between."
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