Some would say that the most difficult relationship is that between a mother and her daughter. In this collection we explore a damaged relationship between mother and daughter. In Sometimes the daughter expresses how more times than not she hates her mother. Within the poem she shares the nights of being homeless and not being able to feel like she had a home but it through the eyes of a child we are drawn to agree with her. In Adulting Sucks the young girl has grown up. She is now a mother and living on her own. In her reflection she realizes all of the things that she now doesn't know because when her mother spoke she turned her off and didn't listen. How much easier would her life be right now if she has listened to her mother when she was a teenager? What did she miss? And finally, in Apology Poem we see the next stage of this woman's life as she sits next to her dying mother and apologies for all of the things that she did and didn't do throughout her life.

A coming of age story that reminds us to appreciate our parents and all of the advice they have to give because at some point in life, those wise words will drift away with the people that we called mom and dad.