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Linda is not a female who shies from an effort - the only real female swordfish boat captain in the country and a survivor of the real Perfect Surprise, she is also a New York Times best-selling author. Through hard work and dedication, she experienced created the peaceful, unbiased life she craved, living over a rugged island off of the coast of Maine. It had been all finally approaching together... Then came up Mariah. A stressed 15-year-old, Mariah gets there on Isle au Haut to stay with her uncle, a newcomer himself and apparently a normal man. The entire community is rocked to its core, however, when they discover that Mariah is hurting terrible maltreatment - at his hands. Plus they do what a tiny island community will best, coming alongside one another to adopt Mariah in as you of their own, protecting her from further damage. But Mariah needs a stable home and a legal guardian. The island nominates Linda. While Mariah is a typical teenager in many ways, she has been uniquely ruined by this horrific experience, and Linda battles to help her get over the injury, to heal, and to begin a new life. Linda can do battle with the gale-force winds of life with an adolescent, help Mariah navigate a tremendously complex legal system to bring her abuser to justice, and find out what it means to be a mother - to a girl for whom it really matters. Both Linda and Mariah will struggle to come to conditions using their ferocious and stubborn independence (like mother, like daughter - unintentional or not) as they figure out how to trust each other and forge a new romantic relationship that they both reluctantly realize they need. Linda Greenlaw's admirers will be delighted by her trademark candor and down-to-earth style of storytelling, and can see a area of Greenlaw that she's not revealed before. New listeners, and any mother or father of any teenaged daughter, will see much to empathize with in this fearless and heartfelt new memoir.
