When Mia realizes that Bebe Chow, her coworker at a local Chinese restaurant, is the mother of a baby who’s about to be adopted by a prominent Shaker Heights family, the McCulloughs, Mia encourages Bebe to step up, leading to a long, difficult, and emotionally taxing legal battle. Mia’s sense of duty to others and desire to guide, soothe, and assist often gets her-or whoever she’s trying to help-into hot water. Empathetic, intuitive, and secretive, Mia avoids her shadowed past by focusing intensely on her art-manually manipulated photographs and portraits-and dodging the questions about heritage asked of her by her daughter Pearl and her landlady and eventual employer, Mrs. She then rapidly becomes entwined in several of the town’s interlocking scandals and snafus. Mia Warren, inspired in part by The Scarlet Letter’s Hester Prynne, is a single mother and struggling artist who finds herself at the center of a strange and tight-knit community, the manicured and utopic Shaker Heights, Ohio.
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