What does it cost to come home?
Some years after the welder left for Churchill. Frank is older, slower, still in the house in Glace Bay. His daughter Ann is in Toronto. One day the phone rings.
Frank has fallen in the garden. He is mostly alright. But something shifts in Ann that night, and over the year that follows she is pulled — by her father’s decline, by the old house’s quiet accumulation, by the gravity of the island itself — toward a decision she never thought she’d make.
A novel about coming home late — and about the particular weight of a place that has been waiting for you. The trilogy closes where it began: with three words typed into a laptop in a yellow kitchen, said by a different person who now understands why they are said this way.
The Pull is Book Three of the Rise Again Trilogy. It follows The Conversation and The Push, and is the trilogy’s closing volume. Each novel stands alone; together they trace one family across a generation of staying, leaving, and coming home.
The Pull is currently in development.
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