EVERY WRITER KNOWS YOU CAN’T GO HOME AGAIN. But that's just what is required of Texas expatriate Dee Bennett-Kaufmann when her mother is badly injured in a mysterious car accident. Single-again “Dr. Dee” has never been on the “A-team” in her trendy East Coast MFA program. When a prestigious summer fellowship gives her the chance to finally finish her book, salvage her career, and spend some quality time with her college-age daughter — Dee's certain her luck is about to change. However, having to return to the family farm to care for her irascible, widowed mother threatens all of that. With so much at stake, Dee engineers a series of unorthodox strategies and creative trade-offs to keep her options in play—and despite herself finds friendship, love, and the power of words in the unlikeliest of places.
Raised by prostitutes, Song Ah-na is ostracized for her origins and unlikely to get adopted. She has always wanted a family, a place to call home. Will she ever get one?
She believes her parents abandoned her and she just ran away from "home" because she needed to take a breather and find her social worker.
What will happen when instead of her social worker, Song Ah-na finds her biological family instead? What if she was never abandoned?
What if this family was everything she ever wanted?
Will she be able to let go of her resentment?
Will she be able to overcome her trauma?
This story spans two decades, starting from the MC's childhood to her adulthood.
Her upbringing is a mystery to many: slowly but surely her traumatic past will be uncovered.