My Mother Left Us With Thirty Dollars for 47 Days—Then Came Home to Police in Our Driveway

When eighteen-year-old Kristen is abandoned with her eleven-year-old brother, thirty dollars, and an eviction deadline, she turns desperation into a neighborhood food network. But when their mother finally returns from a luxury Canadian vacation, she discovers that forty-seven days of silence have created a record she can no longer explain away.