The bonds of a makeshift family are tested in this emotional slice of life novel from the author of The Colored Garden."Bennett brings an African-American community to vivid life with strong and compelling characters and narrative themes to match—growing up, the struggles of parenthood and young adulthood, the responsibilities we all have to each other as people. . . . Bennett handles the multiple plot lines with grace and skill." —Publishers WeeklyGail Neighbors is a hardworking Indiana single mom raising two very different boys. There's Tyler, the youngest. He's a high achiever who sings in the church choir and has a solid relationship with his very present father. Mason, on the other hand, is the oldest and is struggling. He is haunted by the ghost of a father who ran off a long time ago, and it's driving him off the rails.Meanwhile, to make ends meet, Gail rents out two rooms. Her tenants are Annie, an elderly woman slowly slipping away from reality, and Jackie, a single...