Linda and Robin Reismann barely know each other. The only thing that connects them is Lindas six-week-old marriage to Robins father, who has suddenly died. Widowed at twenty-six, Linda is heading to California to start over, uncertain what the future holds. In the trunk of her car, she carries her husbands amateur paintings, along with his ashes. Robin, her silent, angry teenage stepdaughter, about to be left with relatives shes never met, carries a private stash of pot and some closely guarded secrets. But these two women, journeying on a road alongside drifters and dreamers, lovers and liars, will discover something they never expected to findbetween them and inside their hearts.From the Trade Paperback edition.