Motion of Intervals

"You are allowed to find yourself."Kenna has been living under the shadow of her controlling mother, America's sweetheart, Tessa Shepherd her whole life. Now, as a twenty-year-old college student who has made a huge mistake, she seeks freedom and healing through escape. In desperation she contacts her surrogate mother, Rachel.Still grieving the death of her wife, Rachel barely recognizes the world she now inhabits. Desperatly wanting more again, she decides to take a road trip with Kenna, to share the important places from her past. Part desperate escape, part road trip, the women uncover secret stories from each other's lives and realize that they are more alike than they initially understood.The reader is the third person in the car and the rooms occupied along the journey in this vivid, beautifully crafted tale of how the unlikeliest of people can save each other.