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Mary-Esther Sloat is a woman with a patchwork recent: three failed relationships, misspent youth, and some dead-end careers. When she attempts to contribute a kidney to her dying mom, she learns a life-altering fact: Loretta Boudreau Day is not her biological mom. After Loretta dies, Hurricane Katrina destroys Mary-Esther's only tie to New Orleans: her favorite Nana's house. For a while, Mary-Esther lives in a battered Chevy truck. Equipped with a faded labor and birth license, she finally corrals the courage to unravel the mystery of her labor and birth at a little medical center in the panhandle of Florida. When she confirms the site of the hospital, she is dismayed to learn it now houses the Gadsden Region Sheriff's office. Sergeant Jerry Blount befriends Mary-Esther and helps her locate a retired nurse who once did the trick at the small hospital. After ending up in the older in a local assisted-living center, Mary-Esther visits the county courthouse to research records for children blessed on a single day. She discovers a newborn girl with a similar previous name, Sarah Davis of Chattahoochee, a little town in the same county. Hattie Davis Lewis lives with her partner Holston and adopted child Sarah Chuntian Lewis in the old family homestead three miles south of Chattahoochee. She often thinks of her old sister, a child also called Sarah who passed away shortly after labor and birth. Hattie's older sibling Bobby Davis, his better half, and kid live local on the family land. Bobby fights his own demons that threaten his hard-won sobriety. Mary-Esther camps out in her truck at a lake near Chattahoochee, hesitant initially to confront the family she suspects to be her own. Instead of welcoming hands, Mary-Esther confirms a clannish community and a sibling decided to keep her from declaring her birthright. How can she blend the person she presumed she was with the person she never really had the chance to be?
