Publisher's Synopsis
Edith is not sorry her mother is dead; she's relieved.
Maybe that means there's something wrong with her. Maybe she's got this grief thing all wrong. All Edith knows for certain is that she's finally free, and she should never have come back home. But fleeing to her out-of-state college apartment before her mother's funeral isn't as uneventful as she had hoped. After her brother catches her at the bus stop to give her their mother's journal, she's left questioning the only things she thought she knew. It's no wonder Edith's awful at making decisions. Her mother controlled her every move for the twenty years she was alive. It's just unfortunate that Edith's most pressing decisions threaten to cost her everyone she loves. As memories of her childhood and her mother haunt each leg of the journey, Edith's not sure what she's afraid of more- figuring out how to live her own life or that her mother was right, and she is destined for failure.
