In Leah's Wake

The Tyler family had the perfect life'until sixteen year-old Leah decided she didn't want to be perfect anymore. As Leah's rebellion escalates, her parents, Zoe and Will, wage a desperate battle to pull their daughter back, leaving Leah's thirteen year-old sister, Justine, to fend for herself. In Cortland, Massachusetts, where money and image reign supreme, the Tylers, once town royalty, soon find themselves the subject of gossip and speculation. Jerry Johnson, the townie-turned-town-cop who intervenes, may be the only person in all of Cortland who instinctively understands Dostoevsky's conviction, that ?every one is responsible to all men and for all men and for everything.' There is a fine line, the Tylers discover, between growing up and growing wise. Between womanhood and motherhood. In Leah's Wake chronicles the struggle of a middle-class American family, as their picture-perfect world breaks in the bitter waves of pain, disappointment, resentment and love.Giuliano Long, Terri is the author of 'In Leah's Wake', published 2005 under ISBN 9780975453391 and ISBN 0975453394.