In Search Of Us

The author of the beloved Love Letters to the Dead retu
s with a sweeping multi-generational story of a single mother and her biracial daughter, each at age seventeen.

To seventeen-year-old Angie, who is mixed-race, Marilyn is her hardworking, devoted white single mother. But Marilyn was once young, too. When she was seventeen, Marilyn fell in love with Angie’s father, James, who was African-American. But Angie’s never met him, and Marilyn has always told her he died before she was bo
.

When Angie discovers evidence of an uncle she’s never met she starts to wonder: What if her dad is still alive, too?

So she sets off on a jou
ey to find him, hitching a ride to Los Angeles from her home in New Mexico with her ex-boyfriend, Sam. Along the way, she uncovers some hard truths about herself, her mother, and what truly happened to her father.

Alte
ating between Angie’s present-day jou
ey and Marilyn’s romance set against the backdrop of LA in the ’90s, the stories of In Search of Us intertwine to create a powerful tale about secrets and lies, race and identity, and mothers and daughters.