The Stories We Keep

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Nobody talks about the hard parts of being a mother...at least not until it's too late.</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Depressed isolated and stuck in her head Jenna spends her days comparing herself to the good moms wishing for more patience and grace-and less mom-guilt and rage.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Until a new friend helps her understand just how far into the darkness she's fallen...and a series of very bad days sends her running for her life.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Back in her hometown eight-hundred miles away she must confess what she's done to the sassy southern women who love her and who can see her for who she truly is even if she can't see it for herself.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>All to answer one impossible question: Can she find herself-and her way home-again before there's nothing left to find?</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Perfect for fans of:</strong></p><ul><li><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: var(--__N4QdCheV6mGo#0f1111)><em>Sorrow And Bliss</em> by Meg Mason</strong></li><li><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: var(--__N4QdCheV6mGo#0f1111)><em>The Mother I Could Have Been</em> by Kerry Fisher</strong></li><li><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: var(--__N4QdCheV6mGo#0f1111)>Anne Tyler and Claire Lombardo</strong></li><li><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: var(--__N4QdCheV6mGo#0f1111)>Realistic slice-of-life stories</strong></li><li><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: var(--__N4QdCheV6mGo#0f1111)>Small town settings</strong></li><li><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: var(--__N4QdCheV6mGo#0f1111)>Strong southern women</strong></li><li><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: var(--__N4QdCheV6mGo#0f1111)>Emotional reads</strong></li><li><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: var(--__N4QdCheV6mGo#0f1111)>Mental health representation</strong></li></ul>