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Lisa C Taylor | The Shape of What Remains

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Release Date: 09/04/2025

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Read Between the Lines with Molly Southgate

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🎙 Lisa C. Taylor – The Shape of What Remains

In this episode of Read Between the Lines, Molly Southgate sits down with award-winning author Lisa C. Taylor to discuss her powerful and heart-wrenching new novel, The Shape of What Remains.

📖 About the Book – The Shape of What Remains
What did six-year-old Serena Calvano see that caused her to run into the road on a clear November morning while waiting for the school bus with her mother? Teresa Calvano has spent a decade consumed with guilt over her daughter’s tragic death, wishing it had been her husband, Luke, who was there that day. As her grief stretches into years, Teresa turns to books, therapy, and even Janis Joplin in a desperate search for healing. But can there ever be a cure for grief—or a way to find peace when what you long for most is another day with the one you’ve lost?

🔗 Links & Resources

Purchase The Shape of What Remains at Bookshop.org: 

https://bookshop.org/a/10588/9781965059203

 

✍️ About Lisa C. Taylor
Lisa C. Taylor’s debut novel The Shape of What Remains was released February 18, 2025. She is also the author of the short story collections Impossibly Small Spaces (Arlen House/Syracuse University Press, 2018) and Growing a New Tail, along with several poetry collections including Interrogation of Morning, Necessary Silence, and The Other Side of Longing (with Irish poet Geraldine Mills).

Her poetry, fiction, and nonfiction have appeared in international journals, anthologies, and magazines, earning Pushcart Prize and Best-of-the-Net nominations. Lisa is the winner of the Hugo House New Works Fiction Award and has served as a two-time mentor in the AWP Writer-to-Writer program. She also teaches, facilitates workshops nationwide, and co-directs the Mesa Verde Writers Conference and Literary Festival in Colorado.

🌐 Connect with Lisa C. Taylor
Website: lisactaylor.com
Instagram: @lisactaylorauthor
Facebook: facebook.com/LisaCTaylorWriter


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