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First-person vignettes and poems detail Rinnie's childhood and adolescence in 1960s and 1970s Cincinnati, including her parents' divorce, abuse at the hands of her mother, development of an eating disorder, and her mother's death from cancer. This unflinchingly honest bildungsroman features stark emotional realism and evocative period detail.