Once everything starts to fall into place, you can’t help but appreciate the skill it took for Burt to craft such a complicated story. It’s puzzling early on, trying to figure out how all the pieces of this complex story fit together. I don’t want to spoil anything, so I can’t give any details other than to say they all have an important role in the overall story. There are several others we meet along the way-two in particular where we see the action through their points of view. What I’ve described above touches on only two of the characters in this multi-faceted story. Intriguing right from the start, The Good Daughter is layer upon layer of mystery. This sets off a chain of events that apparently pushes her mother over the edge of sanity, leaving Dahlia to search for answers on her own… answers that are not only heartbreaking, but horrifying. To Dahlia’s dismay, Memphis is as tight-lipped as ever, and seems to be teetering on the edge of madness.īefore Dahlia can attempt to get any answers, she discovers a woman who has been left for dead in the woods. Dahlia left when she was 18, and didn’t return for 15 years-she wanted answers about her strange childhood, and Memphis was the only person who could provide them. Memphis never told Dahlia why she chose to stay in Aurora she was an obsessively private woman who shared very little with anyone, including her daughter. Dahlia was enrolled in school, and able to make lasting friendships for the first time in her life. It was the reason Dahlia was home-schooled, instead of going to school like other children did.Īfter years of moving from one place to another, Memphis took Dahlia to Aurora, Texas… and they stayed. Sooner or later they would leave, moving on to another motel in another town… it was an oft-repeated cycle that Dahlia was told had to do with Paperwork… which they didn’t have.

Dahlia knew they wouldn’t stay long they never did. They were constantly packing up and leaving in the middle of the night, driving to parts unknown. They would stay in the new place for a while, living in the cheap motels where her mother, Memphis, worked as a housekeeper and got paid ‘under the table’. Most of Dahlia Waller’s earliest memories take place in her mother’s car.

Remember Mia by Alexandra Burt