The Weight
of Little Souls
KIM CONDON
The Weight of
Little Souls
One house. Generations of hidden stories.
Thirteen-year-old Vivien knows her family is about as dysfunctional as it gets. What she doesn’t know is how to fix it. As the adults around her make choices she can’t control, Vivien quietly assumes the improbable and unending task of holding her family together, all the while nurturing a fragile hope that things might change. When a discovery in her backyard leads her to take action which kicks off a family crisis, it draws her attention to the people who lived, loved, and grieved in her house long before Vivien’s family came to live there.
Set across three eras in Lawrence, Kansas, The Weight of Little Souls is a story of family and loss that resonates with the hardship of carrying the burdens of the people we love. Their stories are separated by decades and yet somehow entwined. Tender, haunting, and threaded with the uncanny, The Weight of Little Souls explores what children inherit from the adults who fail them, whether the past can ever truly release its hold on those in the present, and what it takes to begin to heal.
What do the places we inhabit remember?
A family’s struggle for reunification meets the long memory of a house. The novel explores loss, the meaning of belonging, and the traces one generation leaves for another.
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