Adrianne (aka Mom) is Anna's mother.  She was born and raised in Massachusetts, but came south during the back-to-the-land movement in the 1970s and ended up on a farm in Virginia where she raised her three children.  She canned tomatoes while eight months pregnant with one daughter and hiked up the mountainside to cut down a Christmas tree while eight months pregnant with the other.  (She also dropped Anna in a flooded creek when Anna was an infant, which might explain many things....)

Currently, Adrianne lives in a medium-sized town an hour and a half from the Walden Effect farm.  She enjoys reading tales of arctic explorations gone terribly wrong, growing her own vegetables, and keeping an eye on her three children.