Showing B-Mother by Maureen O'Brien

HardCover. Pub Date: 2007 Pages: 288 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt I did not want to stop holding him feeling his dark peach fuzz tickling my Face I had only forty-eight hours If I was lucky. Maybe seventy-two. With absolute honesty and aching sentiment. without a trace of sentimentality. Maureen O'ien's B-MOTHER draws the portrait of sixteen-year-old Hillary Birdsong. an unmarried mother caught between her own emotions and her parents' shame in a time that now seems very long ago and far away. B-Mother is an A-plus.-Jacquelyn Mitchard. author of The Deep End of the Ocean and Cage of Stars Maureen O'ien has written a rich and satisfying. bittersweet and captivating story of one girl's rocky path to womanhood. Hillary Birdsong's story of love. loss. and recovery is so richly rendered it will lodge in your heart for all time.-Jo-Ann Mapson. author of The Bad Girl Creek ...