Perris, California: A Novel - 'This novel will live alongside classics of young womanhood' - Susan Straight

''A glorious debut... it will rouse your deepest well of empathy.'' - Adriana Trigiani, bestselling author of The Good Left Undone

''This novel will live alongside classics of young womanhood.'' - Susan Straight, author of bestsellers Mecca and In the Country of Women

In this unforgettable debut novel, twenty-seven-year-old Tessa, pregnant with her third child and living in a trailer on her mother-in-law''s property, encounters the woman she used to love - leading Tessa to question the very foundations of the life she''s built...

Abandoned first by her father and then her mother, as a girl Tessa is left to live with her abusive stepfather and stepbrother. She survives by finding reserves of strength in herself, and by the surprising, transformative love of another teenage girl, Mel, who sees through Tessa''s tough exterior to the vulnerable, scarred, loving woman inside. When she suddenly loses Mel, too, Tessa stumble