Presents a tale about the complicated interactions between mothers and daughters who unwittingly inflict harm on one another in spite of their best intentions.
Leigh grew up poor, ferried from town to town by her mother, and then finally abandoned altogether. Still, she worked her way through college, and at the start of Laura Moriarty's direct and unrelenting novel, Leigh has seemed to achieve the dream of a middle-class life: she has a husband and two children and lives in the suburbs. But after her daughter Kara runs down and kills a pedestrian with her car, the family's tenuous grasp on normalcy begins to fracture, and Leigh realizes that the damage of her relationship with her own mother has never truly healed, and that her escape from her old life may never truly be complete.
- Genre: Juvenile Fiction, Fiction + Literature Genres, Fiction + Literature Themes
- Subgenre: Transportation / General, Family + Friendship, Society + Social Issues, Types of Characters, Disasters, General
- Publisher: Hyperion Books
- Pages: 306
- Language: English
- Format: hardcover
- Release Date: August 7, 2007
- Date Published: August 7, 2007
- Author: Laura Moriarty