In accordance with her Sicilian Catholic family s unspoken code, Paolina Milana learned at an early age to keep her secrets locked away where no one could find them. Nobody outside the family needed to know about the voices her Mamma battled in her head; or about how Paolina forged her birth certificate at thirteen so she could get a job at The Donut Shop; or about the police officer twenty-six years her senior whose promise to her Papa to keep an eye on her quickly translated into something sinister. And perhaps that s why no one saw it coming when on the eve of her sweet sixteen, pushed to...