This bold new inspiring book is so full of twists and turns, it will certanily overwhelm you with each chapter. It is a compelling and touching novel that takes you on a journey through the life of a very young girl as a working foster child in the 1950's and beyond, beginning with a postpartum mother, an abraisive alcholic father and bewildered siblings, that are in her constant care as she struggles for normality as she grows. Travel through the uncertainties of her early childhood deaing with moving, abandonment and on going medical issues. Her misfortune will take hold of your heart strings and you will want to protect and comfort this intelligent determined little girl named Rose. She grows into Margaret as she is controlled and then, read along as she matures into Marty, a cool sure footed confident teen with strong survival instincts and skills long forgotten in todays society. Her only companion is her own strength.