On September 11, 2001, when Molly Fitzgerald was two months old, hermother went to an appointment at the World Trade Center and never camehome. Her father and the stepmother who raised her couldn''t have loved her more,but she still grew up with a healthy dread of disasters.Now an adult, she runs the Rhode Island Department for Emergency Preparedness,mapping out plans to save lives during storms, epidemics, and plane crashes. Sheand her husband, Jesse-a police polygraph expert with his own history ofcrisis-have found a love that is a solace in a dangerous world. But then theunexpected upends their new marriage, leading them both to question everythingthey thought they knew.Hollow Bones tells an epic story of the lies we tell ourselves as we write the narratives of our lives, the plans we design to protect ourselves at the worst moments, and the ties that bind mothers and daughters.