Half of Everything

Betty grew up in a sober-living home, on a couch where strangers confessed the worst things they’d ever done — an early, unasked-for education in the human condition. She knows her chaotic, impossible mother down to the bone. Her father is a blank she’s spent a lifetime not looking at too closely.

When she finally goes digging for the missing half of where she comes from, her rag-tag crew of friends make the search funnier, louder, and every so often genuinely dangerous. It’ll make you laugh out loud on one page and catch you by the throat on the next — a story about the family you’re dealt, the one you choose, and how much of yourself you’re willing to turn over to feel whole.

…take inventory of everything she doesn’t have — a headboard, a law degree, a father — in roughly that order of how much she’s willing to think about it before coffee.