How Far is the Ocean from Here A Novel

Giving into panic as her delivery date approaches, Susannah Prue, a young, unmarried surrogate mother, flees Chicago to seek refuge in a dilapidated Southwest motel, where she encounters a colorful array of misfit characters, from the motel proprietors and their mentally disabled son to a woman transporting her niece to the father she has never met. A first novel. 30,000 first printing.