A blisteringly funny, heart-scorching tale of remarkable kids
shattered by tragedy and finally brought back together by
love."--People
Somehow, between their father's mysterious death, their glamorous
soap-opera-star mother's cancer diagnosis, and a phalanx of lawyers
intent on bankruptcy proceedings, the four Welch siblings managed to
handle each new heartbreaking misfortune together.
All that changed with the death of their mother. While nineteen-year-old
Amanda was legally on her own, the three younger siblings-Liz, sixteen;
Dan, fourteen; and Diana, eight-were each dispatched to a different set
of family friends. Quick-witted and sharp-tongued, Amanda headed for
college in New York City and immersed herself in an '80s world of
alternative music and drugs. Liz, living with the couple for whom she
babysat, followed in Amanda's footsteps until high school graduation
when she took a job in Norway as a nanny. Mischievous, rebellious Dan,
bounced from guardian to boarding school and back again, getting deeper
into trouble and drugs. And Diana, the red-haired baby of the family,
was given a new life and identity and told to forget her past. But
Diana's siblings refused to forget her--or let her go.
Told in the alternating voices of the four siblings, their poignant,
harrowing story of unbreakable bonds unfolds with ferocious emotion.
Despite the Welch children's wrenching loss and subsequent separation,
they retained the resilience and humor that both their mother and father
endowed them with--growing up as lost souls, taking disastrous turns
along the way, but eventually coming out right side up. The kids are not
only all right; they're back together.
