"Every knock is a boost." That is the motto of Ma, the unhinged and controlling matriarch of the Napolitano family. Ma stomps through life on her own terms, teaching what she considers life's most valuable skills to her twin boys and sickly, sheltered daughter, Lauren. Ma's peculiar ideas about love, survival, and parenting directly mold her children; her lessons include using whatever means necessary to get by (even if those means include theft,...