![]() ![]() With this framework in place, the novel alternates between the two women as first-person narrators in the past and present. She leaves everyone in her tightknit community reeling when she reconciles with the newly released Patty and offers her a place to stay. ![]() Five years later, with the support of her hometown, Rose Gold has purchased the house where her mother grew up and begun renovating it to create a safe place to raise her infant son, Adam. ![]() After discovering that her mother had spent the better part of two decades poisoning and starving her, the then-teenage Rose Gold testified in the trial that sent Patty to prison for aggravated child abuse. Rose Gold Watts was never sick, but her mother, Patty, with her bottle of ipecac syrup, was. But old habits-and old grudges-die hard in Wrobel’s debut novel. The daughter testified, the mother went to prison, and their small town hoped that would be the end of it. ![]()
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