John Riley's Daughter opens in a small South Carolina town in the early 1970s with the disappearance of Memphis Riley's 29-year-old mentally handicapped aunt, Clover. Memphis and Clover have never gotten along, which is just one of the things Memphis...
In 1937  -- the summer that Amelia Earhart disappears  -- 13-year-old LaMarr’s flamboyant mother, Charmaine, flies off with a stunt pilot and doesn’t return. Sent to live with an aunt and uncle, LaMarr awaits her mother’s return while attem...
Set in a small Southern town in the 1940s, a touching coming-of-age novel follows fourteen-year-old Afton as she tries to understand her emotionally distant mother and becomes determined to unravel the mystery surrounding Bailey, the uncle she never ...