Mulberry Seeds

From award-winning author Lisa-Behrens Smith is Mulberry Seeds, A Novella, the story of young sisters Jolene and Corrine facing poverty, homelessness, and loss. After their father loses his job, the family sells their house and their car to try to get by. Little Corrine doesn't understand yet what is happening, and older Jolene's days are filled with cleaning houses and babysitting. As food becomes scarce and the moves more frequent, their father grows silent and their mother more angry. Not even their relatives can help them hold things together.

While their parents and their lives fall around them, the sisters become each other's worlds. They find joy in new friends, love from relatives that haven't forgotten them, and a new strength in each other.

But is their hope enough to get them through the coming heartbreak?