This beautiful debut novel about a girl who tragically loses her family is harrowing at times, but it is also a sweet meditation on the power of a mother's love. Rachel Morse's mother was Danish and her father African-American. Rachel must now learn to live without her mother 鈥 although her grandmother and aunt, in their different ways, try to fill the gap 鈥 but, in many ways, Rachel's mother is with her wherever she goes.
