The Chance You Won't Return

Driver’s Ed and a first crush should be what Alex Winchester is stressed out about in high school, and she is — but what’s really on her mind is her mother. Why is she dressing in Dad’s baggy khaki pants with a silk scarf around her neck? What is she planning when she pores over maps in the middle of the night? When did she stop being Mom and start being Amelia Earhart? Alex tries to keep her budding love life apart from the growing disaster at home as her mother sinks further into her delusions. But there are those nights when everyone else is asleep that it’s easier to confide in Amelia than it ever was to talk with Mom. As Amelia’s flight plans become more intense, Alex is increasingly convinced that Amelia is planning her final flight — the flight from which she never returns — and she worries how far her mother’s delusions will take her.