From a psychoanalyst’s couch, the narrator looks back on her bizarre childhood in which she was born with a birth defect into a family intent on fixing it having somehow survived the emotional havoc she went through. And survive she did, but not unscathed. This intimate narrative echoes the voice of the narrator’s younger self, a sharp, sensitive girl keen to life’s hardships. With bare language and smart humor, both delicate and unafraid, the narrator strings a strand of touching moments together to create a portrait of an unconventional childhood that crushed her, scarred her, mended her, tore her apart and ultimately made her whole.