Fairleigh Parker tells the story of teenaged Emily and her mother. Fleeing their home and on the move, Emily begins to suspect that her mother is not quite who she believed her to be. With a hard-bitten realism inspired by mid-20th century masters such as Raymond Carver and David Goodis, Fairleigh Parker captures lives at the margins of respectable society without sentimentality. This twilight world contains poetry, tenderness and fatalism in equal measure.