Mother, Still

Moira Gatlin has spent nine years building a life so small it barely exists—same lunch, same routine, same silence. She works unseen at a municipal water authority, speaks only when spoken to, and keeps her flat stripped of anything resembling warmth. Then a talkative janitor named Perry Nichols refuses to let her disappear. As an unlikely friendship pulls Moira toward the living world, a letter arrives from the woman who destroyed it: her mother is dying and wants to see her.