Love in the Present Tense

 Fiction by Catherine Ryan Hyde

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This story begins with a thirteen-year-old girl called Pearl who barely has a chance in life and ends up a single mother way too soon. Later on, her son Leonard develops a friendship Mitch, a man who lives next door to them. There is also Barb, an older woman who is having an affair with Mitch, and Jake and Mona, a couple who take in foster kids. The lives of these people become intertwined in a strange way.

This was a really good story that brought the characters to life.

I also read recently by this author: Diary of a Witness