The Mostly True Story of Tanner and Louise

by Colleen Oakley

comminuted

Producing multiple bone Splinters

“Chi non beve in compagnia o è un ladro è una spia.” “Is that . . . Spanish?” “Italian.” “What does it mean?” “He who won’t drink in company is either a thief or a spy.”

A thief or a spy

They’ve got this place under more surveillance than Chongqing, China.”

The most surveillance in the world

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.

Mothers and daughters

Sybil Ludington, the daughter of Colonel Henry Ludington, who got on her horse to warn colonial forces of British advancement—riding twice the distance of her male counterpart Paul Revere, and getting none of the renown.

Sybil Ludington

THE SILVERSIDE MOTEL on the coast of Northern California sat exactly three miles south of Eureka and three miles east of Humboldt Bay.

Silverside Motel