Sixteen year old Jersey Lake begins her story with the fundamental aspects of her dysfunctional family by including rich details about the neighborhood culture to which she has always called home. At this time she pronounces the rigorous restraints which have heavily rooted themselves upon the lives of Liberty Lane, while simultaneously painting a vivid picture of her brother, Jester, her talent, and several other residential implications. She also brings to light her ability to have kept a catastrophic secret hidden for the past eight years. But when her brother catches their father, Lucifer, in the act of molestation, the truth unleashes a domino effect of circumstance which immediately leaves her humiliation at odds with the inner turmoil and trauma that has consistently invaded her life. She then finds herself secretly struggling with both the properties of abuse to which she and Jester have experienced at the hands of their father, and the neglect which they have continually received from their mother, Louise. Upon this reflection, Louise's pharmaceutical addiction and lifestyle habits bring Jersey to the accounts of the eight other ladies and families of the lane. As the similar differences in the tragedies of those residing around her begin to unfold, so does a significant flow of personal involvement, and this exposure soon has Jersey analyzing these specific dynamics which infiltrate the hypocrisies of said relationships. It is through this process of specific implication and further individual tragedy that Jersey distinguishes how her compelling circumstances have brought her to a state of internal contemplation. She evaluates her emotional dichotomy by reflecting on her past and the individuals within; as she mentally travels the waves of her experience which somehow lead her beyond a tormented moment of loss to discover a new and rather philosophical perspective on life.
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