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Gr 9 Up—The year is 1976, and the Babcock sisters, Adrienne, Vanessa, and Marie, are dealing with the rapidly approaching death of their mother. Their world revolves around their mother's care and her illness. The sisters have put their own lives on hold while they care for her—cleaning the house, feeding her, giving her the necessary medications, and dealing with their mother's increasingly disruptive mood swings. They spend several days each month in a Mexica...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

It's San Diego in the mid 1970s, and narrator Vanessa Babcock and her sisters Adrienne and Marie are trying to cope with their mother's leukemia, which has now progressed to a terminal prognosis. Since their father is always tied up with work, it falls on the sisters to accompany their mom on her frequent trips south of the border to an experimental clinic, but the stress...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

In 1970s San Diego, narrator Vanessa and her sisters accompany their mom, who has leukemia, south of the border to an experimental c...Log In or Sign Up to Read More