"A
genuine Texas treasure...Jane Roberts Wood is more than a storyteller...[she]
is a social historian who tells a quality story in a way it
ought to be told."
The Dallas Morning News.
In Roseborough, Jane Roberts Wood
returns with a keenly observed tale of bighearted people in
small-town Texas. Three weeks after Mary Lou's Gypsy husband
dies, her fourteen-year-old daughter, Echo, runs away. Numbed
by grief and grounded only by her job at the Dairy Queen, she
impulsively signs up for Anne Hamilton's single-parenting class
at the nearby community college. Anne, complex and passionate,
has avoided the risks that come with commitment. Knowing nothing
of the stages of grief or the process of recovery, Mary Lou
begins a sometimes comic, yet poignant, journey to find Echo.
Compelled by Mary Lou's story and her strange daughter, Anne
begins her own journey that can ultimately set her free.
With
warmth, humor, and insight, Roseborough explores the
shifting bonds between parents and children and the friendships
that liberate and transform our lives.