2019 Faulkner/Wisdom Writing Award Finalist A drunken mother makes childhood ugly.
When Mama dies, Jane returns for the funeral, leaving her husband in the dark about.
Seventeen years later, she looks good on paper: married, grad school, sober, but her carefully constructed life is crumbling.
Vowing never to return, she hitchhikes to California, right on time for the Summer of Love.
Jane runs away at sixteen, determined to leave her fraught upbringing in the rearview. 2019 Faulkner/Wisdom Writing Award Finalist A drunken mother makes childhood ugly