Harvesting the Heart
Jodi Picoult

A young girl, fresh out of high school, runs away from her home in Chicago. She can no longer face her father after an act that she commmitted, and her mother left her when she was just five-years-old. She finds herself moving east, working in a diner, when she meets a man finishing medical school, and from a world entirely different from her own. The two marry and the marriage is less than perfect. The new addition to the family does not help, and the young girl leaves her new family in search of the mother who left her behind.

This was not my favorite Picoult book. So many times I wanted to throw it across the room. It wasn't because it was poorly written, or a horrible plot, but the two main characters were very unlikable.