The Strange Inheritance of Leah Fern
When 6-year-old empath Leah Fern—once “The Youngest and Very Best Fortune Teller in the World”—is abandoned by her beautiful magician mother, she is consumed with longing for her mother's return. Until something bizarre happens: On her 21st birthday Leah receives an inheritance from someone she doesn’t even know, and finds herself launched on a journey of magical discovery. It's a voyage that will spiral across the United States, Canada, into the Arctic Circle and beyond—and help her make her own life whole by piecing together the mystery surrounding her mother’s disappearance. The Strange Inheritance of Leah Fern is an enchanting novel about the transcendent power of the imagination, the magic at the threshold of past and present, and the will it takes to love.
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Why we picked this
This story opens with a character who has pretty much given up on the idea that her life is gonna get any better. But then comes a knock at the door, and a neighbor she barely knows hands her a box, an urn, and the first in a series of letters that sends her on a road trip across the country. Along the way, she discovers more about her mother she never knew and a similar journey her mother once took, but about herself, and about the possibility that life can get better if you are open to the possibility of connection.
Recommended by Veronica Jorden, Reader in Residence
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