Garlic Queen
"Mom, we have to get back to Maine before school starts. How can you have a job?"
"Don't be stupid! You want to go back to another winter in frozen NoWhereville? You're in Sunny California! Enjoy yourself!"
Samantha had been raised by her grandmother, her "Bama," until her twelfth birthday, when her mother suddenly showed up to claim her. So began a strange new life for Sam, thousands of miles home, cut off from her friends, from Bama, and from everything familiar.
Bama finds a way to stay connected while Sam learns to see the beauty, the sunlight behind the fog that clouds her adolescence.
Now, almost two decades later, her grandmother has passed away, and Sam must figure out how to manage what remains of her life and farm business, Royalty Garlic. She needs to find a way to get rid of possessions while preserving the memories. She must say a final goodbye to Bama, honoring the amazing woman she loved.