Title: Bloody Mary
First published: 2003
Description: Tells the story of socially adept, thirteen-year-old Hadley and her protective mother, Claire. Claire develops epilepsy and with it a traumatic disorientation which leads her to begin an affair. Hadley feels abandoned and runs away, falling under the influence of a predatory man who gives shelter to runaways. Both try to regain control of themselves and their lives.
Subjects: Girls, Fiction, Jewish families, Mothers and daughters, City and town life, Fiction, general, Mothers and daughters, fiction, Chicago (ill.), fiction
Places: Chicago (Ill.)
LC classification: PS3569.O6514 B58 2003