An Accordion in Illinois

The instrumental road trip is a 2,000-mile daughterhood adventure about reuniting with my mother's accordion after forty-plus years. Ferocious ovarian cancer killed my mother on Tuesday, May 5, 1980, when I was fourteen and she was fifty-five. Several years before she died, my mother gave her accordion to my childhood babysitter, who now wants to give it to me. I am fifty-five years old, the same age my mother was when she died, and I am ready and eager bring the accordion home.