At just ten years old, Bailey shot her mother’s abusive lover, in an attempt to rescue her from a savage beating. Although traumatizing the girl, the incident was never reported due to the doctor’s social prominence, and it became submerged in family silence.
The child’s subsequent heavy drinking drowned the memory until she was fourteen, and became the youngest alcoholic ever admitted to Stockbridge, an exclusive rehabilitation center.
At Stockbridge, Bailey meets Jim Peabody, the twenty-year-old son of the famous doctor. Both suffer from alcoholic amnesia and become acquainted as though for the first time.
Bailey struggles to recover her belief in the goodness of the child she’d been and is haunted by memories of her old home and her own father, whose journey is almost as mysterious as Bailey’s own. An utterly unique coming of age tale.
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