The Night I Found My Mother on the Closet Floor
When the writer's family moved to the Southwest, she and her mother got more than desert landscapes: They got a violent Christmas Eve that would mark their time there forever.
Beth Ain
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Beth Ain is a writer of books for kids and the creator of the "Starring Jules" series, published by Scholastic. She writes for grown-ups on her blog, tincanstilts.com, and is an occasional contributor to Kveller. Beth lives in Port Washington, New York, with her husband and two children.