Freckle

"You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with," says a stranger to Allegra Bird. These words affect and hurt the girl: are there even those people in her life? Allegra, whom everyone calls Freckle,... is 24 years old; she grew up with a single father and has never seen her mother — the Spanish beauty Carmencita. Perhaps her mother should be in that five? Between the harsh Atlantic coast of Ireland, where her father and old friends remain, and the wealthy suburb of Dublin, where Freckle lives and works but still feels like an outsider, she searches for her runaway mother, seeks "her tribe," and most importantly — searches for herself. Told in the bright, vivid voice of the main character, this is an unforgettable story about human relationships, about blood and spiritual kinship, about friendship and how to become oneself — a poignant and soul-stirring coming-of-age novel.