Description: After 15-year-old Lucy loses her mother, grief compounds with sorrow at the realization that she never really knew her -- and never will. Now, 25 years later, as she is recovering from a terrible injury, Lucy realizes that her family life is unraveling -- and her only way out is to understand the mystery of her mother's life, a mystery whose key lies in a haunting Depression-era photograph.
-- A cross between Anne Tyler and Alice Hoffman, Scofield is a literary writer with a growing reputation and sales that have increased with each book.
-- Scofield's debut novel was nominated for the First Fiction Award given by the American Academy of Arts and Letters and was selected by the NEA/USIA for a 1990 New American Writing Award. Her second novel was a finalist for the 1991 National Book Award, appeared on the New York Times's "Notable Book of the Year" list, and won the 1992 American Book Award. A Chance to See Egypt won the 1997 Texas Institute of Letters Fiction Award and was nominated for the Oregon Book Award.

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