Important update from the author This tale is told from three distinct points of a young teenager, her mother, and their landlady. Kalayla is a bi-racial girl determined to teach adults a thing or two. Her mother, Maureen, has been disowned by her Irish family and works as a waitress. Their Italian landlady, a widow, is retiring as CEO of her family’s business. Their deepening friendships provide a scaffolding of support and show the transformative power of connection as they each risk new adventures with laughter and courage. Their stories touch on adolescence, single motherhood, self-discovery, race, and marital abuse with honesty, humor, and compassion. Some of the scenes in Unraveling Tangles will be familiar to readers of Kalayla. However, this book is not a dressed-up duplicate of the first. Unraveling Tangles allows the characters to reshape and complete their stories.