Five years have passed since Ada put down the bottle. She no longer reeks of alcohol, no longer stumbles through the nights with strangers whose names her daughter never bothered to remember. But sobriety doesn’t erase the past. For twelve years, Ada barely knew her own child — she never asked about her favorite color, never cared about the nightmares, never noticed the bruises left by cruel words at school. Instead, she drank, lashed out, and left her daughter to grow up alone in the same house. Now, Ada is sober… but she is a stranger in her daughter’s life. And no matter how hard she tries to change, the child she neglected has already learned to live without her.l