"'Mom's different, right?' I asked.
'I like to think that your mother is almost whole,' [my father] said. 'So much in life is about almosts, not quites.'
'Like the moon,' I said."
Helen Knightly is an artist's model nearing 50 years old. A mother of two, she is haunted by her own agoraphobic and cruel mother, Clair. Still, Helen's sense of duty is as inescapable as the moon itself. ...