Melody is just out of prison. Faced with the absence of her brother, who's serving life in San Quentin, and hardened by her own experiences in lock-up, Mel sturggles to adjust to the harsh realities of life on the outside. She quickly discovers that freeedom is relative...she has no money, no prospects, no guidance.
Forced to return to her mother's apartment in Marin County and take a job houling portable toilets, Mel finds herself drinking too much and hanging out with her old gang again. Haunted by glimpses of her own harrowing girlhood and of the mysterious circumstances that put her in prison in the first place, she slowly, bravely begins to forge a potential path toward redemption and escape.
- ISBN10 0743446569
- ISBN13 9780743446563
- Publish Date 11 May 2010 (first published 19 August 2002)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Simon & Schuster
- Imprint Washington Square Press Inc.,N.Y.
- Format eBook (EPUB)
- Pages 336
- Language English