num_pages: 133
description: A twenty-one year old telemarketer, Tammy Schend has barely managed her life after aging out of the foster care system in Kenosha, Wisconsin. After an impulsive phone call, she quits her job, moves out of her apartment, and drives to Michigan to help take care of her paralyzed Gramma. During her three month visit, she discovers her mom’s buried secrets and makes a decision that destroys a family and shakes the community. Returning to Wisconsin, a new and beautiful life of faith erupts, until she is arrested and sent back to Michigan to pay for her criminality. Waiting to be sentenced, Tammy stays with members of her church--a family with five children and two parents who don't hit each other or yell or hit their kids. She is amazed and in love and uncomfortable. Can she trust them?
title: Making Space for Me: my Mormon adoption story