TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bernhard,Johnnie
TI  - How we came to be /Johnnie Bernhard
SN  - 9781680031577
AV  - PS3602 .H699 2018
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Huntsville, Texas
PB  - Texas Review Press
KW  - High school teachers
KW  - Texas
KW  - Houston
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Single mothers
KW  - Middle-aged mothers
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 2; b
N2  - "Fifty-year-old Karen Anders, a high school English teacher and the adoptive mother of Tiffany, comes to terms with being a single-parent and a clumsy drunk in the multicultural melting pot of Houston, Texas, as she forges an unlikely friendship with Leona Supak, a WWII Hungarian refugee, who inspires Karen to change her views on motherhood, drinking, and men. Karen's teaching job provides an ongoing challenge with low-scoring students and a lack of support from school administrators. Meanwhile, Tiffany moves to Austin to attend the University of Texas, but soon turns to drugs and a gamer boyfriend to try and cope when the stress of college life becomes too much. Tiffany hides the truth of her new life from Karen through a text-only relationship. Feeling rejected, Karen explores the paradox of romance for the middle-aged even as Tiffany's life going to pieces. In spite of the challenges, a family unit comes together inspired by strangers and disappointments in How We Came to Be"--Provided by publisher
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