Reversible Skirt: A Memoir

When the mother of three little girls takes her own life their father wants more than anything to keep his family together. He remarries in haste and tells his daughters his new wife is their mother. The youngest Laura believes her mother must have gone through a kind of magical transformation. Reversible Skirt is written from Lauras perspective as a child sifting through remnants of her mothers existence and struggling to fit into a community where her familys strict rules are not the norm. When Lauras father dies her stepmother grows increasingly abusive which propels Laura and her sisters into a lasting alliance. Their fathers wish that they stay together comes true although not in the way hed imagined.