When her mother uncharacteristically fails to return her phone calls, 31-year-old Nikki Eaton reluctantly travels home to check up on her. When Nikki arrives, she finds the house turned upside-down, and her mother lying, stabbed to death, on the garage floor. Single, sexually liberated and economically self-supporting, Nikki has never particularly thought of herself as a daughter. But she learns to cope with the unexpected loss of her mother over the course of a tumultuous year of mourning that brings sorrow, and even, from an unexpected source, a nurturing, love.
When her mother uncharacteristically fails to return her phone calls, 31-year-old Nikki Eaton reluctantly travels home to check up on her. When Nikki arrives, she finds the house turned upside-down, and her mother lying, stabbed to death, on the garage floor. Single, sexually liberated and economically self-supporting, Nikki has never particularly thought of herself as a daughter. But she learns to cope with the unexpected loss of her mother over the course of a tumultuous year of mourning that brings sorrow, and even, from an unexpected source, a nurturing, love.
