Tara and Emerson are shocked when their best friend Noelle, a midwife with a zest for life, commits suicide, and an unfinished note she leaves behind sends them on an emotional journey that changes everyone's life.
Bargain shopper Becky Brandon is thrilled to be able to dress her two-year-old Minnie in designer clothes, but things get out of control when Minnie learns the word "mine, " and a financial crisis requires Minnie and mom to find another outlet for their shopping energy.
Laura's daughter Elizabeth runs away after a terrible argument, and as she waits for Elizabeth's return, Laura begins to write a letter sharing the secrets of her troubled adolescence and the meaning of the enigmatic tattoo on her right hip.
Best-selling author Sue Monk Kidd and her daughter, Ann, chronicle their travels together between 1998 and 2000, when they embarked on a journey of self-discovery and reconnection through Greece and France.
The life of Jewel Hilburn, a mother living with her husband and children in the backwoods of Mississippi in 1943, undergoes a drastic change when her sixth child, Brenda Kay, is born without the gift of common sense.
The story of three African-American girls from Charleston, South Carolina who go out into the world in their various directions without losing their sense of family.
Lucy's mother, the U.S. Ambassador to Ethiopia, keeps Lucy confined to the embassy, but Lucy's desire to see what is beyond the compound walls gets her kidnapped and she must rely upon her knowledge and courage in order to escape.
Fifty-year-old artist's model Helen Knightly, worn down by years of dealing with her depressed and needy mother, gives in to the temptation to smother the now old and senile Clair and spends the next twenty-four hours feeling both liberated by what she has done, and tormented by her memories of the past and expectations for the future.
Uncertain of where she really belongs, thirteen-year-old Nissa leaves her Louisiana home where she lives with her father and new stepmother and goes to stay with her eccentric mother in Chicago.
