Getting it right

By Karen E. Osborne

Subjects: Resilience (Personality trait), Post-traumatic stress disorder in children, Post-traumatic stress disorder in children -- Fiction, Forgiveness -- Fiction, African americans, fiction, Fiction, general, Families, Resilience (Personality trait) -- Fiction, Families -- Fiction, Sisters -- Fiction, Fiction, Forgiveness, Sisters, New york (n.y.), fiction

Description: Kara and Alex are half-sisters who have never met, one the product of an abusive foster-care setting, the other of dysfunctional privilege. From his hospital bed, Alex's father tasks her with finding Kara, the mixed-race child he abandoned. Alex is stunned to learn of Kara's existence but reluctantly agrees.--