The Coat Closet
Margaret Brown
Jan 2027 · What We Buried Book 13 · RP Books
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A child’s coat should not be the thing that remembers. When retired teacher Niamh Kearns agrees to help clear out the old St. Luke’s Annex before demolition, she expects dust, pageant costumes, nursery chairs, and the usual relics of a church that has kept too much for too long. Then, at the back of a narrow coat closet, she finds a small red winter coat with a name stitched inside: Delia Baptiste. In the pocket is a brass bus token from a line that stopped running decades ago. Everyone in town remembers Delia as the girl who ruined a Christmas pageant and was sent away soon after. The story has been repeated for years with embarrassed laughter, softened by time, church language, and the convenient mercy of forgetting. But the coat has not forgotten. As Niamh follows the hidden trail, she is forced to confront not only what happened to Delia, but what respectable people allowed themselves to call kindness. The deeper she searches, the clearer it becomes that silence was not an absence. It was something carefully maintained. Quiet, devastating, and morally suspenseful, The Coat Closet is a story about memory, complicity, and the terrible weight of ordinary objects. It asks what happens when the past is finally opened, and whether telling the truth too late is still better than letting the lie stand.
A child’s coat should not be the thing that remembers. When retired teacher Niamh Kearns agrees to help clear out the old St. Luke’s Annex before demolition, she expects dust, pageant costumes, nursery chairs, and the usual relics of a church that has kept too much for too long. Then, at the back...
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Margaret Brown taught first grade for many years and later second grade before fulfilling a lifelong dream of becoming a writer. As a former elementary school teacher, she brings a clear understanding of how to make stories and facts engaging, readable, and memorable. Also by the Author: Gorillas: The Complete Guide For Beginners & Early Learning; My Wild Animal Book; Kittens, Kittens, Kittens.
Margaret Brown taught first grade for many years and later second grade before fulfilling a lifelong dream of becoming a writer. As a former elementary school teacher, she brings a clear understanding of how to make stories and facts engaging, readable, and memorable. Also by the Author: Gorillas...
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