Where is home when the life you knew no longer feels like your own? Several weeks after a devastating accident changed the trajectory of Ava Graham's privileged life, her cries for "Mama" were heard from a tent in a homeless encampment shrouded in smoke. Her frantic husband, Lance, and her parents had been searching for her for weeks and were relieved she was alive, but soon discovered she was not the Ava they knew. She had been involuntarily drugged and was diagnosed with retrograde amnesia. In this emotional sequel to Past the Pavement, she struggles to find her place in a world she has little memory of. After weeks in a hospital where she was medically detoxed and then transferred to the neuropsychiatric center for memory and trauma treatments, she is finally released as an outpatient in a high-end boutique treatment center, The Loft at Pierview. On the first day, she unexpectedly reconnects with Antoine Dubois, an encounter that leaves her with a vague, unsettling sense that he was someone important in her past life.She struggles to realign herself with married life to Lance in California, yet something is missing. She moves through her days like a sleepwalker, unfulfilled in a life that no longer feels like her own. With fragmented memories of her past life and the unshakeable feeling that she has a shared history with Antoine, she becomes obsessed with finding answers to her past. When the firm she returned to in California offers her the opportunity to spend one week a month in their offices in New York City, she jumps at the chance to return to her beloved Manhattan and to uncover who Antoine was in her life. Even without her full recollection of her past life, New York feels like home in a way that life with Lance no longer does. What happens next forces Ava to confront the question she has been running from all along: Where is home-and who is she when she gets there?Always and for Ava continues Ava Graham's emotional and unpredictable journey through love, loss, memory, and the search for herself. Read more
