The Last Moon Before Home

When Willow Trudeau is given her dead mother's diary on her tenth birthday, she learns a hard truth: her mother chose Willow's life over her own. Years later, at loose ends over her identity and abandoning college, Willow journeys to a deteriorating ethnic neighborhood in Indiana to search for a father, Leon Ziemny, about whom she knows only his name.

Meanwhile, Leon's father, Walt, a plain-spoken, retired steelworker who runs a dying tavern, has just been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease....