Carola Lovering

A Mother's Grief Became the Quiet Heart of My Novel

There is a particular stillness in a mother's grief that the world rarely pauses to witness. Lindsay Clancy and other postpartum mothers were on my mind when I sat down to write *Whiteout*. The novel became a quiet meditation on that shadowed interior, what remains when joy fractures. In the same way *The Siren Calls Chiara Bransi Into Her Next Act of Reinvention* traces an artist's deliberate evolution, this story asks what emerges when we stop looking away.