Abstract:
The Carmody children struggle to find the path away from their desperate childhood. LIAM sets out to roam the country on foot in a time before homelessness was a political issue. HILDY forgets, long before repressed memory was in vogue. She gives herself away decades before we learned that some Women Love Too Much. And Why. LITTLE WILL sacrifices himself to a faraway war, the price demanded of his survivor’s guilt. And BOBBY RAY turns to the gospel, where he can wreak a hellfire payback on them all. Especially MAMA.