充滿了難于忍受的、影響人格的暴力，動蕩，混亂。"May stayed in Melbourne and got a degree in psychology. She worked as a school psychologist.…Perhaps the most unlikely thing about our childhood is that in spite of everything, May and I turned out kind of normal. But we never talked about our mother…Instead, I write about her, bringing her back to life, over and over."