A Walk Through the Valley

Take a walk in the shoes of a mother and daughter as their lives intertwine in a turmoil relationship of love and hate and most of all need.<br>Growing up in a small industrial town in the south is hard enough but when your mother makes headlines as a murderer it is even harder.<br>The author tells about her life as a mentally motherless child and teenager. While her mother was available for the most part in the physical sense she lacked the emotional support that a parent should possess.<br>Imagine living in the bible belt being watched by judgmental eyes and coming from an area in the small town that is not very respected.<br>The roles of mother and daughter become reversed as the mother acts more like a teenager and the teenager acts more like the responsible adult.<br>Their lives clash and morals are questioned as you follow their relationship through years of self destruction.<br>This book is an example of the struggles deception and frustration of a teenage girl who learns to deal with the hand that she has been dealt as her mother betrays her repeatedly.