Bonnie Jo Campbell, author of Mothers, Tell Your Daughters and Once Upon A River Readers are wiser and more compassionate for knowing these stories. Children eat grape jelly with a spoon and long for ordinary lives as they negotiate adult problems as best they can. McNair guides us through domestic worlds where we might fear to tread alone, revealing truths and exposing worlds peopled with want, kitchens with empty refrigerators and strange men. Responsible Adults is devastating, in the best possible way. What happens when responsible adults are anything but responsible people? When they are at best, irresponsible, and at worst, dangerous? Praise for RESPONSIBLE ADULTS Farms fail, families break apart, work is hard to come by, and the characters in these fictional Midwestern towns are fueled by grief and hope, loss and desire. A pregnant and undocumented young woman brings new life to a failing church and its dwindling congregation. A stepfather attacks a neighbor boy for exposing a shameful secret to his stepdaughter.
“Your mother loves you best when you are ugly,” the girl comes to believe. In Responsible Adults, a mother uses her reluctant adolescent daughter as a model for her art photography. RESPONSIBLE ADULTS, Cornerstone Press, Legacy Series Selection Booklist: “…edgy, empathically imagined, and strongly crafted…” Chicago Review of Books: “These stories peer into the world of humanity with sharp and often devastating preciseness, pulling back the curtain on what it means to care and be cared for.”
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