The Glovemaker David Arnold India is an adoptive mom

India is an adoptive mom in real life though

Then a blue envelope arrives at her school

Sarah Blakley-Cartwright's debut adult novel is a mesmerizing portrait of the inner lives of three very different women"--

eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just served fifteen months for involuntary manslaughter

With her reluctant daughter--who has troubles of her own--in tow

The Glovemaker David Arnold India is an adoptive momIn the inhospitable lands of the Utah Territory, during the winter of 1888, thirty seven year old Deborah Tyler waits for her husband, Samuel, to return home from his travels as a wheelwright. It is now the depths of winter, Samuel is weeks overdue, and Deborah is getting worried. Deborah lives in Junction, a tiny town of seven Mormon families scattered along the floor of a canyon, and she earns her living by tending orchards and making work gloves.