Quickening: A Novel
by By Brown, Laura Catherine
Category: Fiction , General

Delighted to be leaving for college and severing ties with her blue-collar family and backwards town, ambitious, nineteen-year-old Mandy Boyle finds her anticipation and excitement shattered by the sudden death of her father as she becomes caught between the past and future and rediscovers the influence of her family on her own identity. A first novel. 25,000 first printing.