
Since her father remarried, Nissa feels like a stranger in her own home. When her new stepmother moves in and rearranges everything, it's almost as if her free-spirited mother never even lived there. Hoping to restore the life she knew, Nissa accepts an invitation...


It's been two years since Mama left, and Nissa still misses her every single day. Papa has remarried, and though Nissa tries to get along with Lara, her new stepmother, they just don't feel like a family to her. So when Mama shows up again suddenly, asking Nissa to come and stay...


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.