Fourteen-year-old Cam's discovery of her mother's dead body launches a dark and powerful, if at times unsubtle first novel. Cam's absentee father sends her to live with a distant step-cousin, Scofield, and his wife Marge. A complex interplay of points of view--Cam's first-person reminiscences and the third-person narratives of Scofield, Marge, and others--chronicles her childhood, beset by tragedy and abuse. Repeatedly raped at age four by Scofield...