A piercing memoir of the reallife consequences born of living in a toxic household with a horrible secret.Life is beautiful for young Mia McDaniel living with her two loving parents and her younger brother in their Long Island home. All of this is thrown into chaos however when she learns just before her fifth birthday that her older cousin Anna will be leaving Israel following the tragic death of her father and coming to live with Mias family. Little did either girl know that what would happen next in that idyllic suburban home would irrevocably mark all of those involved.ampampnbspMcDaniel takes readers along with her as she reexamines her own life in an effort to understand her fragile past and shape a brighter future for herself and her children.