Synopsis:
A female narrator recalls her birth, right on the heels of her single mother's being thrown through a car window in an accident. Declared illegitimate by the local North Carolina authorities, the mother and daughter struggle with this backwoods curse. Struggling to raise her child, the mother soon marries a kind man, but he dies not long after. She subsequently becomes involved with a more exciting suitor, disregarding his hair-trigger temper and shifty ways. Bad luck ensues, prompted by his annoyance that she is not able to give him a child and the dastardly brute soon begins psychological and physical assaults against the young girl. The mother, although sickened by her husband's abuses, cannot leave him, throwing mother and daughter into a series of escalating confrontations, each struggling for independence and survival.
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