Laura Moriarty

A young girl tries to make sense of an unruly world spinning around her. Growing up with a single mother who is chronically out of work and dating a married man, 10-year old Evelyn Bucknow learns early how to fend for herself.

College student Laura Moriarty's life takes an unexpected turn when her parents divorce, leaving her longing for a home that no longer exists, and trying to manage her own problems while dealing with the realization that her mother--her rock--has difficulties of her own.

A powerful and thought-provoking YA debut from New York Times bestselling author Laura Moriarty. Imagine a United States in which registries and detainment camps for Muslim-Americans are a reality. Fifteen-year-old Sarah-Mary Williams of Hannibal, Missouri, lives in this world, and though she has strong opinions on almost everything, she isn't concerned with the internments because she doesn't know any Muslims. She assumes that everything she reads...

When Alison Wilson's husband Alec dies, a mysterious woman appears claiming to be Alec's real wife, and Alison must try to find out Alec's true identity; when a recently-widowed elderly woman announces her love for another man and her plans to sell the house and go travelling with him, her three adult children become increasingly suspicious of the newcomer and their own lives are thrown into disarray; teenage Louise Brooks aspires to study dance at...