10 Minutes

Raw, lyrical, and deeply human, 10 Minutes is a story about going home—and deciding what you will carry forward when you leave again. When Kim returns to her hometown for her mother’s funeral, the past is waiting for her—in familiar rooms, fractured relationships, and memories that refuse to stay buried. Then she is given 10 Minutes alone. Ten minutes with the woman she loved.
Ten minutes with everything that hurt.
Ten minutes to face what was done, what was denied, and what she carried away with her. Told through an intimate blend of literary fiction and poetry, 10 Minutes moves between childhood and adulthood, tenderness and betrayal, silence and confrontation. Each memory reveals another piece of a complicated family history—and the woman Kim became in order to survive it. This is a story for anyone who has ever loved someone who also wounded them. For anyone who has returned to a place they thought they had escaped. And for anyone who has discovered that sometimes closure does not come from receiving an apology. Sometimes it comes from finally seeing the past clearly.