When twins Liza and Elspeth de Kooning wake in the cold Vermont pre-dawn light to their mother's cataclysmic scream, the eight-year-olds know their lives have changed indelibly and forever. With their father buried and their possessions tossed into shoe boxes and garbage bags, the twins and their young mother head south to the wealthy suburbs of College Park, MD to stay with Uncle Doug. Here they encounter the brittle veneer of the nouveau riche,...