| One womans seemingly perfect life is upended when her biggest secrether mother is paranoid schizophrenicbecomes front-page news. With a penchant for lying, how can she turn her life around after so much deception?Antoinette Toni Williams is beyond cloud nine. A successful architect, she is set to marry the love of her life, Lamonte Dunlap, Jr. But on the morning of her engagement party, Tonis world comes crashing down when her familys long-held secret of mental illness is exposed on the front page of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Friends scatter, contracts dry up, and Toni is forced to face the truth about her shattered family. Lamonte assures her he will stick by her side, but Toni is embarrassed and ashamed. The only thing to do, she decides, is to return to her hometown of Sparta, Georgia, to face her inner demonsand her institutionalized motherthat shes spent twenty-three years avoiding.As she reconnects with family and townsfolk, Toni learns you can always go home, the question is, what will you find when you get there? A provocative and heartbreaking tale of family, illness, deception, and love, Wouldnt Change a Thing explores the ties that bind and one womans harrowing and ultimately redemptive journey back home. |
