Keota

This novel traces the stories of three women as they deal with the past and confront the present: Keota, a woman who runs out on her young daughter and alcoholic husband; Chris, the daughter she abandons; and Rainy, whose childhood friend is killed in front of her on a railroad bridge around the time that Keota disappears.

When Keota leaves, she is twenty-three, reckless and unstable. She heads toward Chicago into new problems but her luck changes for the better in New York City. When someth...