Arleen Williams

MOM'S LAST MOVE is a story of motherhood, memory loss, and becoming a memoirist. Struggling to mother a high-spirited daughter, Arleen Williams learns to be a mother while mothering her own mother who is sinking into dementia. At the same time, Williams learns to be a writer while coping with the family fallout over the pending publication of THE THIRTY-NINTH VICTIM, her first memoir. MOM'S LAST MOVE takes the reader to that special place between mothers and daughters, between family expectations and creative expression, between defeat and survival.

The Green River murders were headline news throughout the 1980s. By the time the perpetrator was finally arrested over twenty years later, at least 48 young women had been killed in the worst serial murder case in history. In THE THIRTY-NINTH VICTIM, Arleen Williams tells the story of her family's journey before and after the Green River killer murdered her youngest sister and offers a window into the family dynamics behind this life-altering tragedy. The redemptive power of finding and facing truth are at the heart of this powerful memoir.

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