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A cartographer maps what can be measured. But when Sarah Sims discovers forty-seven hand-drawn maps hidden beneath her father's deathbed, she realizes he has been mapping something far more complex than land-he has been charting the invisible topography of family secrets.Each map reveals a moment when the truth diverged from the story told. A mother's disappearance rendered as an impossible maze. A funeral for someone still alive. The unspeakable distances between a father and daughter measured in precise, devastating detail.As Sarah begins to understand her father's language-a cartography of silence and omission-she must confront everything she thought she knew about her mother's abandonment, her father's failures, and her own role in the geography of family tragedy. With pencil in hand, she begins to draw her own maps, learning that some truths can only be told slant, and some distances can only be measured after they've been crossed.The Cartographer's Daughter is a meditation on inherited silence, the lies we tell ourselves, and the unmappable territory between what is said and what is true. It is a story about how we navigate grief, how we read the people we love, and how we chart our own paths forward.A haunting, lyrical exploration of family, forgiveness, and the power of metaphor to speak what words cannot