Excerpt of conversation with my mom:

"That book is haunting me, I have gone through my books several times and cannot figure it out. It is haunting me because of the last scene when the adopted adult woman is on the beach in the African country she came from and which her two adoptive mothers (I think) took her on vacation, she is left  alone and realizes she is in trouble and there is nothing she can do about it…. does that ring a bell????"

I think it had a yellow jacket, and it might have won an Alex, but I can't remember when.