Responsible Adults

<p>In <em>Responsible Adults</em> farms fail families break apart and work is hard to come by. The characters in Patricia Ann McNair's fictional Midwestern towns are fueled by grief and hope loss and desire. A stepfather attacks a neighbor boy for exposing a shameful secret to his stepdaughter. A pregnant undocumented young woman brings new life to a failing church. A mother uses her reluctant adolescent daughter as a model for her art photography. What happens when responsible adults are anything but responsible people? When they are at best irresponsible and at worst dangerous?</p>