The Mostly True Story of Tanner and Louise

by Colleen Oakley

“With your generation. Everything is black and white. A person makes one mistake—or one perceived mistake—and suddenly they’re . . . what do you call it? Terminated.”

She’d been Tanner’s punching bag for months—well, years, really, if you counted back to high school. She knew kids, daughters especially, took all the anger, frustration, world-weariness out on their mothers because they could. Because mothers would always love them—even at their worst. But even the best mothers had a breaking point.

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