Mired in debt and on the run from a series of broken homes,
about-to-be-divorced Debra Monroe pulls up in front of a
tumbledown cabin outside a small Texas town. Its
isolation—miles from her teaching job in a neighboring
city—feels right. She buys the house and ultimately doubles
its size as she waits for the call from the adoption agency
to tell her she’s going to be a mom. Now in her forties, she
is swept into the strange new world of single motherhood,
complicated by the fact that she’s white and her daughter is
black. As Monroe learns to deal with her daughter’s hair and
to re-enter the dating scene, all the while coping with her
own and her daughter’s major illnesses, they live under the
magnified scrutiny of the small, conservative town.
Confronting her past in order to make a better life for her
daughter, Monroe rebuilds not only a half-ruined cabin in
the woods but her sense of what it is that makes a
sustainable family.
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