From the Garden of Memory

All manner of calamity has pared down the Willoughby family tree to but two descendantsùKate, a wise and watchful teenager, and Addy, her reclusive and needy mother. With the death of her brother in Vietnam and her fatherÆs suicide, Kate becomes her motherÆs keeperùpaying bills with the same efficiency she applies to her studies and retreating behind the sturdy, protective walls of the familyÆs limestone mansion from the gossipy community of Fayette, Illinois. When her motherÆs broken heart...