“This novel will make readers hungry for more.” Aritha van Herk

Teenage years can be complicated, even when you haven’t been abandoned by your mother at age ten. It is the 1980s and teenage Gemma lives with her well-meaning father, Nathaniel, and tries to come to terms with growing up motherless. Then comes the strange, almost unthinkable news: Angie is back, attending church in a nearby town, and she has adopted a Korean infant.  Gemma finds herself facing the prospect of maybe, just maybe, seeing a mother she is pretty sure she hates.