Ellie Calvin’s world is tilted off its axis when her mother Lillian dies and Ellie learns her ex-boyfriend Hutch was preparing an exhibition with her mother at the center of it. Hutch hopes to focus the exhibit on Lillian’s work with the Civil Rights Movement, but Ellie never knew her mother had any involvement in the Civil Rights Movement. When Ellie finds Lillian’s diary, she realizes there is a whole other side to her mother, things she kept hidden from everyone, even herself. Wanting to know more about the woman she called mother, and feeling out of place and time in her own life and especially marriage, Ellie takes a trip to the Georgia coast to the Summer House where Lillian spent her early adult years as she hopes to piece together her mother’s life and learn more about her mother, and perhaps more about herself. While Ellie is not a very sympathetic character, her search into her mother’s past to find the true woman is appealing and will speak to many people who wish they could have known their mother (aunt, grandmother, etc) as a person outside their role in the family.
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