As a teenager pretty much left to raise herself, Lucy Diamond is a narrator with a radiant yet guarded heart.
Conveyed through dialogue th.
Simultaneously embracing and resisting their similarities, Fromm reveals both women\'s emotional vulnerabilities and their deep mutual need.
But while Lucy charges ahead, her mother\'s youth is fading.
As she races at breakneck pace toward womanhood, everything is at stake for her, producing an urgency and dread that she holds at bay with humor and grace.
As a teenager pretty much left to raise herself, Lucy Diamond is a narrator with a radiant yet guarded heart