Book Synopsis: "I'm taking a trip... out of the country... Don't look for me. Try not to worry. Love, Mom." When their mother disappears, sisters Pagan, Prana, and Zhikr are shaken. As a single parent, their mother has always been a stable, constant presence and each of them needs her now.
Pagan's second pregnancy has turned into a harrowing dilemma. Prana is devastated when her long affair with a married man starts to fall apart. And Zeke has become -- reluctantly -- the only sober caretaker for her girlfriend's children.
In their mother's absence, the sister's piece together fragments of her past to realize what it might have cost her, a child of the sixties, to sacrifice her free-spirited ways in order to raise them in a comfortable Westchester town. In the face of difficulty -- and without her mother's presence -- each sister must reflect her mother's resolve and do what is necessary to preserve herself.
