"Truths and roses have thorns about them."
~Henry David Thoreau
Rebecca Griffin has everything she ever wanted – or so says her big-hearted Italian American family. But now her marriage is unraveling and her teenage daughter is hurtling toward a self-destructive calamity. While Rebecca struggles to hang on to her husband and save her daughter, she learns of the mysterious death of a young woman long ago at a local prison and her family’s connection to the girl, Rose. It is a story that haunts Rebecca. Her search for answers takes Rebecca from the small idyllic New England town where she lives to her big Italian family still residing in the old tight-knit neighborhood in East Boston. As she tries to dig up the facts of the young girl’s life and violent death, Rebecca’s own buried secrets surface. She finally gains insight into the choices she’s made, facing the difficult truth about her husband, Drew. The three women, Rebecca, her troubled daughter, Dana, and a mysterious figure from the past each unknowingly embark on a collision course one desperate, enchanted autumn night when the answers they seek come to light in the most unearthly of places by the most innocent of messengers.
~Henry David Thoreau
Rebecca Griffin has everything she ever wanted – or so says her big-hearted Italian American family. But now her marriage is unraveling and her teenage daughter is hurtling toward a self-destructive calamity. While Rebecca struggles to hang on to her husband and save her daughter, she learns of the mysterious death of a young woman long ago at a local prison and her family’s connection to the girl, Rose. It is a story that haunts Rebecca. Her search for answers takes Rebecca from the small idyllic New England town where she lives to her big Italian family still residing in the old tight-knit neighborhood in East Boston. As she tries to dig up the facts of the young girl’s life and violent death, Rebecca’s own buried secrets surface. She finally gains insight into the choices she’s made, facing the difficult truth about her husband, Drew. The three women, Rebecca, her troubled daughter, Dana, and a mysterious figure from the past each unknowingly embark on a collision course one desperate, enchanted autumn night when the answers they seek come to light in the most unearthly of places by the most innocent of messengers.
The Forgotten Roses Playlist
Songs available on iTunes
"Bad Girl"
"This Woman's Work" "Blackbird" "Constant Craving" "I Love It" "Oh, Marie" "Nick of Time" "Is This Real?" "Angel" "Home" |
Smokey Robinson
Kate Bush The Beatles K.D. Lang Icona Pop Dean Martin Bonnie Raitt Lisa Hull Sarah McLachlan Philip Phillips |