"The narrator, Celeste, watches the world from her wheelchair and through her binoculars from a vent in her kitchen. She reports things she sees, but her interpretation of these events are sometimes accurate and sometimes wildly imagined. As she does ventures out, her observations become more valid, but her mistakes prove tragic. In addition to Celeste, there are her neighbors, an ex-biker dad who is struggling to control his 15-year old, adopted, rebellious, dangerous, tattoo-addicted daughter, Persephone. He fails, in part because the biological mother. Celeste's neighbor, fails to come forward and in part because Celeste manipulates events thinking they will be to her advantage. Revelations produce grief and guilt, but also awareness and hope."--