A woman recounts the story of three generations of women in her family as she sews the button onto the shirt of the husband who is leaving her. A golden heirloom button, passed down from generation to generation—a chain of guilt, silence, and death.

From Pontus during the Genocide, where a mother smothers her six-month-old child with her own hands so that its cries do not betray the exiled fugitives to the enemy, to modern Greece and its domestic violence, the button becomes the bearer of a curse or, perhaps, a dark justice that no one dared to name...

Against the backdrop of the silent violence of history and through collective memory and female trauma, "The Button" is a novel about the power of choice. And about how unconditional love can bring redemption.