Set in rural Pennsylvania, Deb Callahan's life is changed forever when her teenage daughter mysteriously disappears. Deb is left to raise her young grandson and navigates the trials and tribulations of subsequent years, until a long-awaited discovery of the truth is revealed.

A sharp, hilarious memoir about a nontraditional upbringing and growing up Black in a predominantly white community--

"Provides guidance to the millions of grandparents who raise their grandchildren because addiction, mental health problems, incarceration, or immaturity leave the birth parents unfit. Offers insights from experts and grandparents about the new family dynamics; difficult birth parents; legal, financial, and medical issues; school and social challenges; and self-care"--

Janelle Marshall's perfect, upscale career-- and her perfect, successful boyfriend-- will make her future as secure and predictable as her childhood never was. But just when she should be happiest, she gets a distressing call: her grandfather, Little Bill, has gone missing. Now Janelle must go to the one place she's long avoided-- the tiny mountain town of Mammoth Falls, South Dakota. As Janelle challenges her past, and comes to term with her present,...

Lauduree is a 13-year-old loner, passionate about nature and obsessed with ecological disaster. Greta, her grandmother, is a nurse jaded by alcohol and disappointment. When Lauduree is abruptly abandoned by her dreamer single mom, she decides to take survival into her own hands, forcing her and Greta to rethink their futures.

The film tells futurist, architect, and inventor R. Buckminster Fuller's incredible story through two teens hoping to get laid, become punk gods, and survive high school.