You Know Better
by Tina McElroy Ansa
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"Ansa writes energetically, colorfully . . . evocatively." - Kirkus Reviews.
It is the weekend of the Peach Blossom Festival in the tiny Georgia town of Mulberry, and LaShawndra, an eighteen-year-old hoochie mama, has messed up . . . again. But this time she isn't sticking around to hear about it. She plans instead to hitchhike out of Mulberry with her arms wrapped around some handsome stranger on a motorcycle - avoiding the responsibility for her actions.
Not that her mother seems to care; after all, Sandra is busy working on her flourishing real-estate career and a tenuous relationship with a local minister. It's LaShawndra's grandmother, Lily Paine Pines, a highly respected cornerstone of the Mulberry community, who is out scouring the streets at midnight looking for her granddaughter.
Over the course of one weekend these women, guided by the wisdom of three unexpected visitors - the ghosts of Miss Moses, Nurse Joanna Bloom, and Miss Eliza Jane Dryer - will learn to face the pain of their lives and discover that with reconciliation comes the healing they all desperately seek.
Tina McElroy Ansa is the author of the novels Baby of the Family, Ugly Ways, and The Hand I Fan With. She has contributed essays Postcards from Georgia to CBS News Sunday Morning. An avid gardener, birder, and amateur naturalist, she is married to Jonee Ansa, a filmmaker. They reside on St. Simons Island, Georgia.