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"A memoir about the author's coming of age as she grapples with her identity as an artist, her family's racial history, and her mother's death from cancer"--Provided by publisher.

Feature writer Nikki Eaton, contemptuous of her widowed mother's domestic, middle-class lifestyle, embarks on a year of grief and transformation when her mom is murdered shortly after a Mother's Day party during which Nikki went out of her way to be offensive.

"A daughter's . . . search to understand her mother, Carolyn Scott--once a bridesmaid to Princess Grace and one of the first Ford models--who later in life spent years living in a homeless shelter.

"After her mother's death, Ivy is sent to live on an island with a rich uncle where she experiences nightmares and learns about her family's murderous past"--OCLC.

For two years, twelve-year-old Hazel has coped with her Mum's accidental death by overprotecting her sister and Mama, but when Mama reconnects with her first love, roles begin to shift.

"Yaminah Okar left Obsidian and the wreckage of her family years ago.

"Tamarind has never met her Indian mother, Chinty, who died shortly after she was born.

"A heartbreaking and hilarious memoir by iCarly and Sam & Cat star Jennette McCurdy about her struggles as a former child actor--including eating disorders, addiction, and a complicated relationship with her overbearing mother--and how she retook control of her life"--.

For as long as she can remember, Belle has been insidiously obsessed with her skin and skincare videos.

"After years of physical and verbal abuse from her mother, fourteen-year-old Coi moved in with her father, and together, they created a peaceful life.