Up a Creek

A thoughtful coming-of-age novel about a young woman struggling to connect with her eccentric mother. " I picked up my poster, raising it so everyone could see that if they chopped down these old oak trees, they'd be killing the South as well. I held it high like I meant it, and I walked around Oak Square forty-six more times that day, till all that was left of the sun was a buttery smear in the sky." Miracle Bott's activism is a constant embarrassment to her thirteen year old daughter, Starshin