![]() ![]() ![]() Rob’s past story begins when she and her twin sister Jack are seventeen and have been living at Sundial for the past twelve years, ever since their birth mother allegedly died when the two were young children. Interspersed among these chapters are short excerpts from a fantasy novel Rob has spent years writing called Arrowood. ![]() The chapters of this book alternate between Rob in the present, the Rob of the past, and Callie. Rob believes she can repair the broken relationship with her daughter, as well as bring her back from the darkness through sharing the uncanny events that happened to her as a teenager. Rob, who has suffered multiple traumas since childhood, fears that Callie has inherited her family’s generational “evil.” Determined to keep her current family from spiraling, she tells her husband that she is taking their daughter to Sundial, a ranch in the Mohave Desert where Rob grew up. When Rob’s nine-year-old daughter Annie swallows a bottle of her father’s diabetes medicine, all signs point to Callie being responsible. Callie, the oldest, has been displaying increasingly disturbing behaviors, such as collecting animal bones and talking to ghosts. Rob is a woman in an abusive marriage to a man named Irving, and she is trying her best to be a good mother to her two daughters. Sundial takes place during two separate timelines, past and present, and is told from the perspectives of two narrators. ![]() Sundial (2022) by Catriona Ward, Photo Credit: Natalie Getter ![]()
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