Even the best-laid plans go awry sometimes, and the kids' adventures take a wild turn. Captain Ahab is far crazier than they realized, and bookstores aren't really the best places to find whales, white or otherwise.
Do you know what it's like give to 100 percent and still feel like it's not'and you're not'enough for anybody' To be caught between caring for an aging parent and raising young children'
When a "lizard woman," a self-mutilating preacher, a tattoed monk, and a sleazy lobbyist find themselves in the same North Carolina town one winter, their lives are edging precariously close to disaster . . . and improbably close to grace.