The Secrets in the Attic

What happens to the pieces of a life that are too painful to speak aloud? This book is drawn from a true story; only the names have been changed. For Blanche Wynn Foster Smith, those pieces became the architecture of three separate lives — the hopeful girl who stepped off a train in Eagle, the frightened woman who fled into the night, and the aging grandmother who tucked her past into a cedar box and hid it beneath a bed. She was imperfect in all the ways that make a person real. Flawed, frightened, brave, selfish, loving, and deeply human. Her choices wounded, her choices protected, and her choices haunted her long after she believed she had outrun them.