A First-Generation Silent Voices Novel · Polly Mae Cashin
He spent years escaping their life together. Now he would give anything to keep her in it.
George remembers the woman who raced snowmobiles, kept a Sunday school room in order, and always knew where they were going. Sometimes Marilyn is still that woman—a familiar joke, a knowing look, her hand resting over his. Then she asks a question that carries them into another year, and he cannot follow.
As dementia changes their days, George wants to hold on to every moment she can still share with him. But the past is becoming harder to leave behind. Old grief returns in Marilyn’s confusion, and their grown daughters carry their own memories of the father he used to be.
George cannot restore his wife’s memory or undo what his family has lived through. And the harder he tries to keep everything together, the more he must face what has been holding him together: the need to prove he can finally get it right.
Set beside a Minnesota lake, Loving in Two Realities follows a family whose love, hurt, and history do not fit neatly into the same story. Moving between their perspectives—and the unseen spiritual struggle beneath them—the novel explores regret, grace, and what it means to remain close when someone you love experiences a world you cannot enter.
What can love become when remembering together is no longer possible?
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The Silent Voices series
One family. Stories carried across generations.
The Silent Voices novels explore how the past lives on in relationships, in the voices people believe, and in the choices that begin to change what comes next. Loving in Two Realities enters the family’s first generation through George and Marilyn.
Each novel stands on its own and may be read in any order.
