Erica Witsell

Laurel and Len are young grad-student types. Their marriage is not a match made in heaven. Laurel is self-absorbed and an alcoholic and Len is a frustrated academic. He’s ready to end the marriage when Laurel learns she is pregnant. Jesse comes along and the marriage works for a time, but then another child, Emma, arrives and Laurel’s alcoholism and philandering spiral out of control.

Laurel agrees to give up the children to Len and he marries the babysitter, Sarah.

What makes this novel unique and compelling, is that it isn’t the story of Len and Laurel or Sarah. It’s Jesse and Emma’s story. Their bond and their conflicting loyalties for the mother that gave them life and the mother that raised them.

Powerful, epic saga.
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