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Daddy’s not coming home again. Before I heard those words, we were the fabulous four from Ft. Knoxville, Mississippi. That’s what daddy use to call us. Now, we’re just three, not the fabulous three, just three: Momma, my older brother Mitch, and me. Or is it Mitch and I? Daddy would correct me, but he’s not coming home again. I’m Malena. I just turned eight yesterday so I don’t know a whole bunch of stuff yet. Except them telling me today, Daddy’s not coming home again.”
This begins the heart wrenching story of Malena Dawson a daddy’s girl, who internalizes the loss of her daddy but thrives on the love of God her parents instilled in her through out her youth. However, when Malena goes off to college she becomes someone she no longer recognizes, filling her mind with shallow misconceptions of life, love and success.
When Grant Carpenter, a young man from her childhood resurfaces in her life, Malena, battles with their age difference and still in denial concerning her daddy’s death, she vacillates between wanting and denying the love Grant has too offer until she finally pushes him away.
It is only when she finds her life spinning helplessly out of control that she realizes the only person who may be able to help her is the secret lover she met as a little girl in the backfield of her father’s house.
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