The colorful characters in this collection of nine short stories, each from the state of Kentucky, are living life the best they can, discovering themselves, and struggling to overcome the many obstacles life has thrown upon them. Many make choices-choices with great ramifications-as they walk along their journey. In the title story, young Gail struggles to understand her drug addicted mother and emotionally absent, distant, father. The choices her parents have made have molded her into a troubled young girl and in a moment of weakness, and curiosity, young Gail makes a decision that could...