The Pardoners

Ren Wardlow can't imagine her future, but is convinced her "real" mother can-if only she can find her. Growing up in the 1980s, in an upstate New York college town where she sees no one who looks like her, she feels "most at home among the mutations the world creates and disowns." She often doesn't know "who or what to believe" when fierce quarrels erupt between her deeply divided parents and her two brash, scientific-minded sisters. After being seduced by a member of her adoptive mother Ce...