Publisher Description
At forty-five, Jane McArdle has experienced her share of life’s twists and turns. Yet she’s shaken by the sudden death of her estranged half sister and the news that she’s now the guardian of her orphaned niece, Lucy.
Still nurturing unresolved grief from a marriage bookended by loss, as well as her guilt over her adult son’s imperfect upbringing, Jane is her own worst enemy, content to focus on her small Michigan farm. Now, confronted with a traumatized eleven-year-old, the prickly empty nester is thrust into motherhood again, unsure she’ll do any better this time.
City girl Lucy is bewildered by aloof Aunt Jane and a new life in rural Michigan. The debilitating phobia Lucy has developed since her parents’ deaths keeps her stuck in this place that’s nothing like home. She secretly plots to run away to live with other relatives. Jane and Lucy must decide if they’ll both endure yet another loss—each other—or if their paths will lead them to forge a new family together.
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About Cari Noga
Cari Noga is a writer, reader, mother, bicyclist and wine lover. Cari grew up in Detroit and earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Marquette University in Milwaukee in 1991. In 2001 she began a freelance career based in Traverse City, Michigan. Her first book, Road Bicycling: Michigan, a guidebook to bicycling in the state, was published by the Globe-Pequot Press in 2005. Her essay, “All The Comforts of Home,” was selected for publication in Chicken Soup for the Wine Lovers Soul, published in 2007. After aspiring to write fiction for many years, she wrote her first novel, Sparrow Migrations, as part of National Novel Writing Month in 2010. The novel’s protagonist, Robby Palmer, a twelve-year-old boy with autism, and his parents, Sam and Linda, embody many experiences Cari and her husband have had as parents to a son with autism. Cari lives in Traverse City with her husband and their two children. In her spare time she enjoys writing haiku on Twitter.
About the Narrators
Tanya Eby is a novelist and an audiobook narrator who has earned several AudioFile Earphones Awards and been nominated for the Audie Award. She has a BA degree in English language and literature and an MFA in creative writing from the University of Southern Maine.
Frankie Corzo is a film and voice-over actress and audiobook narrator. She obtained a BA degree in theater studies from Montclair State University.