The Book of Polly

Willow Havens is ten years old, watchful beyond her years, and already haunted by the fear that her mother will not be with her long enough. Her mother, Polly, is fierce, unruly, funny, impossible to overlook, and far too alive to fit neatly inside the life their small Texas town expects. As illness, old secrets, and the pull of the past begin closing in, the novel becomes a warm, bruised, deeply human story about growing up under the shadow of loving someone extraordinary.