The Wilderwomen

Five years ago, Nora Wilder vanished one morning. Her elder daughter, Zadie, can see the future, yet her visions gave her no warning that her mother was about to leave.

Zadie's younger sister, Finn, has no such gift. What she has is an extraordinary memory that holds her own past and also the traces other people leave behind, which she experiences as echoes. The two sisters are estranged.

At her graduation party, Finn is overtaken by an echo stronger than any before it: a woman singing a song about a bird, a song Finn knows. She comes to in an aviary with no idea how she arrived. The memory, she realizes, is Nora's.

Finn believes their mother is still alive and wants to be found. Zadie doubts it, but she goes along with it against her better judgment. The sisters take to the highway and use Finn's echoes to follow Nora's route, hoping to learn why she left.

This is a family mystery with a magical streak, told through a road trip. The deeper Finn goes into her mother's past, the harder it becomes for her to come back to the present and to herself.