"Janel Campbell lost her mother when she was eleven years old. Along with stories of her own life, Janel weaves together the backdrop of her mother's life, from Idaho to Los Angeles, to Utah, to Seattle, to New Jersey, and back to Kent, Washington-a path that eventually led to her mother's brutal murder on March 8, 1961. Mary Kelley Campbell was a witty, high-spirited Irish girl, a devout Mormon, a compassionate Christian, and the mother of six children....

"Ken, whose Japanese American family has been in the United States for generations, is mainstream; for Hua, a first-generation Taiwanese American who has a 'zine and haunts Bay Area record shops, Ken represents all that he defines himself in opposition to. The only thing Hua and Ken have in common is that, however they engage with it, American culture doesn't seem to have a place for either of them. But despite his first impressions, Hua and Ken become...

"In late 2021, Diane Foley sat at a table across from her son's killer, Alexanda Kotey, a member of the ISIS group known as "The Beatles" who plead guilty to the kidnapping, torture, and murder of her son seven years before. Kotey was about to go serve life imprisonment and this was Diane's chance to talk to the man who had been involved with brutally taking her son's last breath. What would she say to his killer? What would he reveal to her? Might...