FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER THE PARTICULAR SADNESS OF LEMON CAKE - A
RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB PICKLONGLISTED FOR THE PEN JEAN STEIN BOOK AWARD'The Butterfly
Lampshade is an unflinching empathetic portrayal of a childhood touched by mental illness. As
always Aimee Bender's respect for the child and the child within translates into wisdom and
magic on the page.' Jing-Jing Lee author of How We DisappearedOn the night her mother is taken
to a mental health hospital after a psychotic episode eight year-old Francie is mesmerised by
a lamp adorned with butterflies as she falls asleep. When she wakes Francie sees a dead
butterfly matching the ones on the lamp floating in a glass of water. She drinks it before
anyone sees. Twenty-years later Francie is compelled to make sense of that moment and two
other incidents that have haunted her life. But how close are her memories to reality and will
she ever be free of them?
