Blood: A Memoir

"“One shot. 1-2-3-4. Next shot.” Allison Moorer uses this stark phrase to evoke the rupture at the center of her family’s story: When she was 14 and her sister Shelby was 17, her father killed her mother and then turned the gun on himself. This disaster was never a secret. Fans of the prolific singer-songwriter and her sister, who records as Shelby Lynne, have long known its outline. In this wrenching, careful excavation of all that has flowed through and around that morning, Moorer transforms it into a mystery – a memory she can never quite see clearly and a paradox with which she must reconcile, because she loved her Daddy and sometimes pitied her Mama and still lives, intimately, with their ghosts."