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An Inheritance of Absence|Geoff Duffy

An Inheritance of Absence : Three Who Left, One Who Stayed

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Overview

For generations, one question lingered in the Duffy family.

Why?

In 1930, Lloyd Duffy killed three people, including his wife, before turning the gun on himself. The tragedy left behind shattered lives and a silence that lasted nearly a century. Determined to understand how his family arrived at that moment, Geoff Duffy begins a journey that reaches far beyond one terrible day.

Following fading photographs, forgotten cemeteries, family scrapbooks, and long-lost records, he traces the lives of the people who came before Lloyd. At the center of the mystery is Horatio James Duffy, the ambitious pioneer who abandoned his wife and seven children, leaving behind questions that would echo through generations.

Part family history, part detective story, and part memoir, Inherited Absence is an exploration of memory, loss, and the legacies we inherit, whether we choose them or not. It is a story about searching for people who can no longer answer our questions, and discovering that the search itself can change the one who asks.

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  • ISBN-13: 9798189626746
  • ISBN-10: 9798189626746
  • Publisher: Independently Published
  • Publish Date: August 2026
  • Dimensions: 8 x 5 x 0.24 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.27 pounds
  • Page Count: 116

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