LETTERS FROM STRANGERS by Susan Walter - Spotlight
When her father dies suddenly, Jane thinks it’s the worst thing that could ever happen to her. And then she finds the letters – nine years’ worth of “I love you’s” from a woman who isn’t her mother. The letters make her cry. And then they make her angry. Because in them is talk of a baby, and if Jane has a half-sibling, she wants to know. So she boards a flight from LA to Boston to find her father’s mistress and the teenage child she suspects they had together. In a suburb of Boston, sixteen-year-old Adam Ross dreams of playing college football. But he’s got to get his weight under control first. Because he wants to be a wide receiver and wideouts are lean and fast. But he just can’t stop eating. Adam’s mother never wanted to show him the letters from his birth mother, but Adam is self-destructing and wants answers, even if they hurt. And so she gives her son the box full of “I’m sorry’s” from the woman who birthed then abandoned him – which ...