Matt Crawford speaks with author toby Brookes about his novel, All That She Brings. Matthew Banks loses his wife in a car crash and his life slowly unravels. A job with a Hartford Insurance company places him with an internal therapist which only compounds his despair. Troubles back in California call him home where he must tend to his mother's downfall and an unexpected confrontation with his estranged father. At wit's end, he meets a homeless prophet on the beach on a moonlit night and learns how to look at life from a new perspective. But ghosts from his past Hartford life soon follow him west, and a far different life begins to unfold.

Brookes writes with such nuance and depth that everyone can take something from this read. Delicately writing about trauma and betrayal this is a read that is sure to hit deep.