Marcea is only eight when shes dropped off at her Aunt Claralyns Back Bay basement apartment. Her mother is dead, and her brothers sent to an aunt and uncle. Her father throws her belongings over the fence at Aunt Claralyns apartment, and she steps back, fearing that he might throw her into the yard as well. No one can ever quite tell what he is going to do. He is the core of the unspoken tragedies that shroud and haunt the Molnario family.
