What if your mother hanged herself when you were a small child, and the relatives charged with your care were so consumed by grief that none of them could ever tell you your mother was gone for good?

What if your workaholic father remarried shortly after your mother's demise and pretended your mother never existed?

What if your father forced you and your sisters to always be obedient and pleasant no matter how badly he and the woman who now called herself your mother treated you?

Laura McHale Holland's award-winning memoir, Reversible Skirt, will take you on a childhood shaped by these very circumstances. But it will also show how resilient the spirit of a child can be despite the pervasive, heartbreaking repercussions of one mother's long-ago decision to end her life.

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