When Your Mother Doesn't

✍ Scribed by Kelly, Jill

• Book ID: 108696457
• Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 297 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781632207005

✦ Synopsis

A Revealing and Intimate Story of What a Mother Will --and Will Not--Do for Her Daughters
What kind of women do daughters become when their fathers are missing and their mothers can't love them? How do they find love and ways to love themselves?
Nearly three decades of secrets lie between Lola Ashby and the two girls she reluctantly raised. Now, prompted by the one father figure she respects, older daughter Frankie agrees to drive from Portland to visit her ailing mother, who abandoned the girls when they were in high school. When younger daughter Callie announces to Frankie that she's moving her fashion model career to Los Angeles from the East Coast, Frankie badgers her sister into meeting up in the Idaho panhandle for a family reunion to dilute the impact of their mother's indifference.
However, on Frankie's first night on the road, the trip gets more complicated when a well-dressed elderly woman at a rest stop dumps a young boy in her lap with a...