Brian left Beyah’s mom when Beyah was two and Brian became a weekend dad. With a full ride volleyball scholarship to Penn State in her back pocket, she’s about to get out of dodge for college, but that’s not for another couple of months, and her temporary homelessness means she’ll have to rely on her father, Brian, for a home until she can take off to college. Naturally, the portrait of Mother Teresa is one of the few things she takes with her when she leaves.īeyah has vowed she won’t go out the same way as Janean. Unfortunately, she’s only nineteen, which means she’s too young to rent another one when she’s thrown out due to rent arrears.
Beyah has been brought up in abject poverty and has gone without food many a night.
“The bitch was a fraud” – the mother of Our Heroine on Mother Teresa.īeyah’s initial reaction is to vomit even though Janean, who, as an alcoholic and drug addict, spent days doing all those classic clichéd Drunk Mom things characters do in books, like neglecting her daughter and being hateful. In the opening scene of Heart Bones – one of Colleen Hoover’s earlier and remarkably messy novels – recent high school graduate, the amazingly-named Beyah Grim, realizes that her mother Janean has died of a drug overdose while sitting in the living room of their Kentucky trailer while staring at a hated portrait of Mother Teresa.
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