The beginning: A teenager sneaks into her estranged mother’s house in Texas, desperately hoping that she will be allowed to stay. The only family Hanna has ever known were her father and his (Finnish) relatives. Now, with her father dead and her aunt Ulla unable to deal with a manic-depressive niece, Hanna has come from Finland to Portero, Texas, to make her home with her mother, Rosalee. Hanna’s fear is that she will be too weird and crazy for her mother and her new town. Turns out she doesn’t know from weird and crazy. The town of Portero is home…
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