In the summer of 1989, Maria Pop reluctantly follows her husband to America, where she grows lonely, dissatisfied, and resentful while he seizes new opportunities and flourishes. Fifteen years later, her conscience heavy with a betrayal she’s never confessed, she’s trying to rebuild her life by taking on the brutal real estate market in Manhattan.
In a parallel story-line, her daughter, Liliana, struggles with her own housing issues, complicated by poor choices in terms of friends and lovers, a post-college identity crisis, spotty employment, and a heavy dose of self-doubt that seems not to be deflected by her talent for foreign languages. Seeking a savior, Liliana subsists on a diet of coffee and bagels while doing her best to dress impeccably and dream of faraway places.
Each consumed by her own problems, each hiding her own secrets, mother and daughter drift apart. Yet when Liliana announces her newest self-destructive life choice, Maria realizes it’s high time to intervene. Free on Kindle.
