Lisey’s Story is a moving portrait of a marriage and the healing that must occur when a spouse dies. It is about the secrets we keep from those we love and how far we will go to protect them. The reader will be profoundly moved by Lisey’s endurance and compelled to see that life is precious in all its forms. Award-winning author Stephen King’s touching homage to his late wife, Naomi. Lisey’s Story is the unforgettable tale of the woman who made him the famous man he is today; and how she finally put her fears to rest to tell her own brave and beautiful story.
Now, two years after his death, she has been asked to return to her childhood home and cart away a few things from Scott’s desk. In the drawers, in a locked box that was never to be opened until Lisey was with him no longer, she discovers evidence of his madness – apparently bottomless evidence. And this discovery sends her back through time on an odyssey into the depths of her past and her husband’s characters – characters who together might tell Lisey what it was that turned her husband’s life into an endless story without end or beginning.
Orphaned at twelve and raised by an aunt and uncle, Lisey lost her brother to a drowning accident before she was born. She has neither memories of him nor the events surrounding his death or funeral. She cannot remember if there was a funeral or where it was held; she does not know who arranged it, who attended it — or if there even was one. She knows that since birth, she has suffered frequent amnesia and other mental lapses. The women in her family aren’t quite right upstairs.
About Lisey’s StoryBook
Lisey Debusher Landon lost her husband, Scott, two years ago, after a twenty-five-year marriage of the most profound and sometimes frightening intimacy. Scott was an award-winning, bestselling novelist and a highly complex man. Early in their relationship, Lisey had to learn from him about books, blood, and books before they married. Later, she understood that there was a place Scott went–a place that both terrified and healed him, that could eat him alive or give him the ideas he needed to live.
Now it’s Lisey’s turn to face Scott’s demons, Lisey’s turn to go to Boo’ya Moon. What begins as a widow’s efforts to sort through the papers of her celebrated husband becomes a nearly fatal journey into the darkness he inhabited. Perhaps King’s most personal and powerful novel, Lisey’s Story, is about the wellsprings of creativity, the temptations of madness, and the secret language of love.
