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A beautifully written, compulsively readable debut that deals with the aftermath of
a shocking act of violence that leaves two young sisters with nothing but each other -
in the tradition of White Oleander, this haunting novel is a testament to the power of
family and the ties that bind us together, even as they threaten to tear us apart

Mama was 'no macaroni-necklace-wearing kind of mother.' She was a lipstick and perfume-
wearing mother, a flirt whose estranged husband still hungered for her. After Mama threw
him out, she warned the girls to never let Daddy in the house, an admonition that tears
at ten-year-old Lulu whenever she thinks about the day she opened the door for her
drunken father, and watched as he killed her mother, stabbed her five-year-old sister
Merry and tried to take his own life.

Effectively orphaned by their mother's death and father's imprisonment, Lulu and Merry,
unwanted by family members and abandoned to a terrifying group home, spend their young
lives carrying more than just the visible scars from the tragedy. Even as their plan to
be taken in by a well-to-do foster family succeeds, they come to learn they'll never
really belong anywhere or to anyone - that all they have to hold onto is each other.

As they grow into women, Lulu holds fast to her anger, denies her father's existence and
forces Merry into a web of lies about his death that eventually ensnares her own husband
and daughters. Merry, certain their safety rests on placating her needy father, dutifully
visits him, seeking his approval and love at the expense of her own relationships.
As they strive to carve lives of their own, the specter of their father, unrepentant and
manipulative even from behind bars, haunts them. And when they learn he's about to be
paroled, the house of cards they've built their lives on teeters on the brink of collapse.

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