From Fatherland. Published by Jonathan Cape, a Penguin Random House Company, in 2014.
"The secret that I was a bad mother was a tightness in my chest I carried everywhere."
"Every month or so, my mom sends me a picture from a trip we took together."
Alison McCreesh encounters snow in May, a bemused gas station attendant and a dumpster to cook behind on a trip across Canada.