内容简介：
Examining the complex relationship between mothers and daughters, this provocative novel explores the nature of love and memory and how they shape truth. Sam's life is haunted by the day her mother inexplicably abandoned her at the beach, leaving Sam homeless at 13. Years later, when a coma patient is brought to the hospital where she works, Sam believes the woman is her mother, and she is forced to unravel her painful, confusing past.