Tracy Holczer
Author of The Secret Hum of a Daisy
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The book begins as Grace, twelve years old, is trying to will herself to walk up to her mother's coffin so she can lay a gardenia on the smooth brown wood. Grace has been placed in the care of a grandmother she has never met. When Grace's mama was seventeen, She finds herself pregnant. What does a mother do? She puts her on a bus to stay with a Texas relative. But gets off the bus in California and never contacted her mother again. Now, after mamas sudden and tragic death, Grace, angry and devastated, is left to figure out a brand new life. This touching story of a tender twelve year old girl living with a grandmother she thinks doesn't want her leads the reader on a poignant and heartfelt journey.… (more)