Mandy has had a pretty rough life, but she's had enough of feeling powerless, unloved, and unlucky. She's found a solution - at least a partial one - and is headed across the country by train to meet the woman who she hopes will become the adoptive mother of her unborn child.
Jill thinks that it's absolutely ridiculous that her fifty-year-old mother is planning to go through with an unofficial (no social worker, no lawyer, no signed forms) open adoption with someone she found on the internet! After Jill's dad died last year, they've both been lost, but Jill doesn't think that adopting a baby is going to be the answer to their grief.
Jill and Mandy don't make a very good first impression on each other, but they become part of a very complicated relationship and somehow they must figure out their place in all of this . . . hopefully before a baby becomes part of the mix. Jill has some friends to help her along the way, and through alternating perspectives, the reader begins to rally for both girls to find some happiness It took me some time to really get into this story, but once I did, I found that I really cared about what happened to the characters. In this novel, you'll find friendship, love, pain, loyalty, and sadness, but most of all, you'll find family.
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