Stretch marks
Subtitle: a novel
By: Kimberly Stuart
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: David C. Cook
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Colorado Springs, CO
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780781448925
Subjects: Mothers and daughters; Fiction; Pregnant women; Man-woman relationships
Description: "Mia is a granola-eating, sensible shoe-wearing, carbon-footprint-conscious twenty-something living in a multicultural neighborhood in Chicago. Her mother, Babs, is a stiletto-wearing Zsa Zsa Gabor type who works as an activities hostess on a Caribbean cruise line...and if you guessed there's some tension there, you'd be right. Factor in an unexpected pregnancy and Mia's idealistic boyfriend, and the mother-daughter relationships is, well, stretched very thin. As is Mia's sanity when Babs shows up to...help..."--p.[4] of cover.