Untethered

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Call Number: Adult BOCD / Fiction / General / Timmer, Julie Lawson
On Shelf At: Malletts Creek Branch

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Malletts Adult A/V 4-week checkout	Adult BOCD / Fiction / General / Timmer, Julie Lawson	4-week checkout	On Shelf

Performed by Emily Sutton-Smith.
When Char Hawthorn's husband dies unexpectedly, she is left questioning everything she once knew to be true: from the cozy small town life they built together to her relationship with her stepdaughter, who is suddenly not bound to Char in any real way. Untethered explores what bonds truly form a family and how, sometimes, love knows no bounds. Char Hawthorn, college professor, wife and stepmother to a spirited fifteen-year-old daughter, loves her family and the joyful rhythms of work and parenting. But when her husband dies in a car accident, the "step" in Char's title suddenly matters a great deal. In the eyes of the law, all rights to daughter Allie belong to Lindy, Allie's self-absorbed biological mother, who wants the girl to move to her home in California. While Allie begins to struggle in school and tensions mount between her and Char, Allie's connection to young Morgan, a ten-year-old-girl she tutors, seems to keep her grounded. But then Morgan, who was adopted out of foster care, suddenly disappears, and Char is left to wonder about a possible future without Allie and what to do about Morgan, a child caught up in a terrible crack in the system.
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Decent family story set in Michigan submitted by stellare on July 11, 2017, 10:12pm Overall this book wasn't bad. It is set in Mt. Pleasant Michigan and focuses on a blended family (father, step mom and teenage daughter). The story touches on a lot of difficult subjects like losing a parent, becoming a widow, challenges of children involved in the child welfare system, parenting children with special needs. The ending is happy and there were some parts that seemed a little unrealistic but overall not a bad story to listen to during my commute.