If You Should Read This, Mother — Vivian Rhodes

November 22, 1963. A toddler is awakened from her nap by the sound of gunfire. Is the noise coming from the television set, which flashes vivid black and white images of a president's assassination? Or is the gunfire she hears much closer to home? We jump ahead, to the present. When Los Angles homemaker, Megan Daniels, an adoptee, attempts to track down her biological mother, she runs up against a brick wall. Since her adoptive father is dead and her adoptive mother has Alzheimer's Disease, Megan has her work cut out for her. Following up leads that take her to a small town, Megan meticulously probes the lives of four people -people who might hold the answers she seeks. With each step she takes, Megan comes closer to unraveling the bizarre but incredible truth surrounding her childhood, unaware of the Pandora's Box of danger she's unleashed.