Thirty years after her mother's murder, the author mentally returns to her memories and relationship. After trying to forget, the author finds herself back near the physical place of the murder. We learn about her early life and then the situation from her child's eye that brings a step father into her life. For the next ten years, she struggles to avoid the step father and learns that he beats her mother. Finally her mother takes her and her brother and leaves. Soon her step father tries to kill her mother. He is jailed for a brief period then gets out and renews his harassment, eventually killing her while the author is away at college. The absolute grief and pain of the memories here is harrowing. The author reads this story in a stoic mostly unemotional way but somehow that makes it no easier to manage. It is a sad story but beautifully told in the way that only a Poet Laurette can do.
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