Letting Go of Lee

Clay Fenway thought he would never be back, not to the house, not after the forty years that had already passed. And yet, there he found himself, standing in its foyer, the achingly familiar walls now faded in color, the pictures all packed away in neat little boxes somewhere. Isabelle had called to say she was gone, she had left him letters and then the phone line crackled and went dead.

Clay’s world was on the verge of upheaval. His multimillion dollar corporation caught in the throes of possible financial collapse, his two daughters barely speaking to him, a divorce that left him with an ex-wife still spewing venom from across the country, a recent break up and now in the middle of it all he is left to deal with a pile of letters from his dead mother. A woman he had chosen not to think about for the better part of his life. A woman who now writes to him from her deathbed that she has things to tell him, things that will shock him, things she needs to get off her chest before she dies.

Letting Go of Lee is a story of the consequence of choice and how ultimately life’s trajectory is largely determined by unforeseen moments along the way. And yet, it is a story of hope and hopefully an understanding of why we make the choices that we do. And lastly, it is the story of the strength and resilience of the familial ties that bind us.