My name is Leslie Anne Brennemann. I am a waitress at the Historical Hyannis Hotel Restaurant just off Highway 2 in Hyannis Nebraska. Born a mixed race child on a ranch run only by women, it didn't seem possible, but I never questioned it. Then the truth began to eek out of a lost doctor on the prairie from Chicago, who fell in love with my mother at the Piggly Wiggly. The black Irish baby story was born. Then it all began to fall apart when I learned Hyannis Nebraska never had a Piggly Wiggly. My Uncle and Aunt who were the only black people I knew, turned out to not even be related to me. Then my mom's whole family turned out to be unrelated. But that's not even what got me started writing... Turns out my Aunt Dory was a secret agent that never actually lived in Hyannis, and my mother saved over a thousand people in space once. How did she ever get into space?
Juxtaposed against each other, her mothers could not be more different, and she sees Dory as a weak and broken woman. She thinks she has nothing to teach her, but one lesson remains. Leslie Anne Brennemann finds that the world she lives in is a fiction, discovers the identity of the person responsible for all of it and inadvertently gains something she didn't know was possible. Peace.
Leslie Ann Brennemann, tossed into the fire of her mother's creation, meets an archangel. She touches the plane of consciousness, and is the first person to communicate with an artificial intelligence. Her mother cracked under pressure and must rebuild everything from the ground up, but the wave has not washed past her and her daughter just yet.
Leslie Ann Brennemann gets to live the life of luxury, but it's a bubble inside a storm of her mother's past that is about to come manifest for both of them. She turns into something more important in the eyes of her mother Dory. Leslie transforms into a beautiful beacon of every weakness and mistake she had ever made, an effigy that burns out of control, annihilated in a single blinding flash.
Leslie Anne Brennemann's twenty-first birthday comes with a partially eaten birthday cake and a summons. Her mother Dory lived a life of faults and weaknesses, but she had successfully buried them under the leaves of time or so she thought. Like stepping on a rake, Leslie discovers them all and they rise up to consume the unknowing and untethered mother and daughter.
Leslie Anne Brennemann wrote a book about her mother Loretta Lynn (One Hour Aboard the Elissa), and in doing so learned about her biological mother Dory who did not get high marks as a human being. A deeper investigation reveals the truth about how Leslie came to be adopted in Hyannis Nebraska, how her Moms met each other and how their lives became entangled forever.
Leslie Anne Brennemann learned the truth about her mother, only after her death. The story, a part of history, had never been discussed and even her family knew little about what had happened to her. Leslie rebuilds the events from witnesses and historical documents to get a better picture of who she was.
A young girl from Hyannis Nebraska on a quest for self-discovery finds that her entire world was a lie, and in the process she discovers the secret lives her grandmothers, aunts and more importantly, her two mothers.