The Inner Sea: A Memoir of Motherhood, Adoption, and a Bright Blue Bus

An exceptionally honest and emotionally precise memoir about a birth mother and the daughter she didn’t raise––an intimate portrait of motherhood in all its forms, and the long, winding road between letting go and finding each other again.

For readers of Educated and Maid, this stirring memoir traces one woman’s path from a deeply religious off-the-grid upbringing through heartbreak, reinvention, and an unexpected reunion decades in the making.

When Kate Stapleton becomes pregnant in the mids...