Twenty-seven-year-old Tessa, pregnant with her third child and living in a trailer on her mother-in-law's property, encounters the woman she used to love – leading Tessa to question the very foundations of the life she's built.
The characters in Stark’s debut novel illustrate the contradictions of their surroundings ... Perris, California tells a story about resilience, motherhood, and promises we make.
An emotionally charged portrait of two women’s painful family histories ... In vivid flashbacks, Stark gradually doles out details of the physical and sexual abuse Tessa and her late mother endured at the hands of her stepfather and his son, deepening the well-developed theme of strained mother-daughter relationships.
