The Keeping Room

Marie Faucher inherits a Vermont farmhouse eight months after burying her husband, and for the first time since the funeral her seven-year-old daughter sleeps through the night. Then Marie wakes at 3:14 a.m. to something breathing beneath the floorboards. Behind a bolted door off the kitchen waits a windowless room, a grandmother's journal from the winter of 1961, and a ritual performed by a mother who could not let a dead child go. Something in that house is still hungry.