Up from the Blue
This novel begins with Tillie Harris going into labor. She is in a new town and her husband is away on a business trip. Even though her relationship with her father is tenuous, she must rely on him to get her to the hospital. What is strange is that she hasn't spoken to her father in years, but he is all she has available to her at the time. So begins her memories of wondering where her mother went when she, Tillie, was a child, which is the major portio...