How We Came to Be

ISBN-13: 9781680032864 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 226 str.

Johnnie Bernhard

Opis

Fifty-year-old Karen Anders, a high school English teacher and the adoptive mother of Tiffany, comes to terms with being a single-parent and a clumsy drunk in the multicultural melting pot of Houston, Texas, as she forges an unlikely friendship with Leona Supak, a WWII Hungarian refugee, who inspires Karen to change her views on motherhood, drinking, and men.

Karen’s teaching job provides an ongoing challenge with low scoring students and a lack of support from school administrators. Meanwhile, Tiffany moves to Austin to attend the University of Texas, but soon neglects her academic life when she meets a gamer boyfriend and begins a job at the Ink & Juice, a tattoo parlor-juicing bar. Tiffany hides the truth of her new life from Karen through a text-only relationship. Feeling rejected, Karen explores the paradox of romance for the middle-aged. Despite the challenges, a family unit comes together inspired by strangers and second chances in How We Came to Be.

Spis treści

• My Brother’s Keeper
• Promised Land
• The Roar of Intended Silence
• A Thoroughly Modern Woman
• Over the River and Through the Woods
• The Fall
• Band-Aid on a Bullet Wound
• Up and Down and All Around
• A Noble Profession
• How Low Can You Go?
• The Ghost of Christmas Past
• Peace on Earth, Goodwill to Men and Dogs
• The Eighty-Year-Old Orphan
• The Brief Beautiful Life of a Happy Little Girl
• Tidings of Comfort and Joy
• “We’ll take a cup of kindness yet, for Auld Lang Syne.”
• A New Year, A New Man
• And Baby Makes Three
• The Monkey Bar Queen
• Sweet Dream Baby
• The Renaissance Man
• Dinner for Two, Please
• The Beginning of Something Beautiful
• March Menagerie
• Little, Lost Lamb
• It’s All Relative
• The Straight and true
• Adios
• An Unfortunate Day for Jared Crain
• Someone I Used to Love
• All the World’s a Stage
• Hold the Mayo
• Hot Dogs and Hand Grenades
• Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?
• O Little Flower
• A Death in the Family
• Bulletproof
• The Hope Diamond