![]() ![]() This book is a charming emotional story about the intensity of first love and the strong bond between mothers and daughters. Along the way, she uncovers some hard truths about herself, her mother, and what truly happened to her father. When Angie discovers evidence of an uncle she’s never met she starts to wonder: What if her dad is still alive, too? So she sets off on a journey to find him, hitching a ride to LA from her home in New Mexico with her ex-boyfriend, Sam. ![]() But Angie’s never met him, and Marilyn has always told her he died before she was born. When Marilyn was seventeen, she fell in love with Angie’s father, James, who was African-American. To seventeen-year-old Angie, who is mixed-race, Marilyn is her hardworking, devoted white single mother. This sweeping multi-generational love story introduces readers to mother-and-daughter pair Marilyn and Angie. Angie’s story is about her search for her unknown father. Marilyn’s tale recounts the summer she fell in love and set out on her own path. The author of the beloved Love Letters to the Dead returns with a parallel story of a mother and daughter each at age seventeen. ![]()
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