Aprils and Decembers

To raise a child is to understand how incredibly difficult that job is. What is a mother to do when in building a life for her seemingly perfect family, she gets it all wrong... when the path to happiness she hoped for and wanted for her child spins tragically off course? Dawn Quarles is that mother and her memoir revisits the events and circumstances that, from her own childhood and beyond, shaped her deeply complicated, often heartbreaking and magically uplifting journey through the toughest stages of every woman's life.