01683cam a2200337 i 4500 1592665256 TxAuBib 20240912120000.0 230117s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781774883402 hardcover 1774883406 hardcover (OCoLC)1360436290 TxAuBib rda Carter, Kern, author. And then there was us / by Kern Carter. Toronto : Tundra, 2024. 223 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "Coi is just eighteen years old but has already survived years of physical and verbal abuse from her mother. After being kicked out of her mother's house at age fourteen, Coi has lived with her father, and together they've created a peaceful life. That peace ends suddenly when her mother dies. Her mother's passing also reopens up the door to her mother's side of the family, including her beloved younger half-sister, Kayla, her stepfather and her grandmother. As she reconnects with her family, Coi learns to see parts of her mother she never experienced and for the first time since she was abandoned, opens her heart to forgiveness."-- Provided by publisher. 20240912. Mothers Death Fiction. Abuse of children Fiction. Mother and child Fiction. Teenage girls Fiction. Children. Young adult fiction. Fiction. lcgft TXKPL