Description: Told in a hushed voice that takes hold of your heart and won't let go, this is the story of Hattie Barnes, a child who grows up by coming to terms with two worlds: the private one inside her house, where her mother is unpredictable, elusive, adoring and adored; and the public one of her small North Carolina town, in which her mother is politely known as "the Barnes woman with all the problems". From Hattie's confused yet affectionate perspective, we learn of her mother's suicidal lows and delirious highs and Hattie's continual struggle to find a place in her mother's heart amid the hopes and fears that are buried there. Now available in trade paperback for the first time, "Sights Unseen" is Kaye Gibbon's "best novel since Ellen Foster" (Publishers Weekly).

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