"A National Book Foundation's 5 Under 35 honoree delivers her first nonfiction work: a compulsively readable, genre-bending story of finding her birth mother and learning the power of self-knowledge"-- Provided by publisher.

Mother of reckoning -- The second call -- Leave no witness -- What we were really doing -- This is not a road trip -- Give me a second -- Beware the boat -- Red herring -- Middleman -- A stranger comes to town -- Hearsay -- On suspicion -- Use of force -- Last stand at Daejeon -- This might be a road trip -- The house that Eomma built -- Postmortem -- Acknowledgments.