Contributor(s): Author: Robert F.
How does Malice deal with becoming a woman in a household of men?.
Disillusioned by her parents\' separation, and her religion, Malice sculpts a private world, out of-of all things-chewed gum.
Ruth, her emotionally distant mother, punishes Rick by delivering Malice at midnight ("like some ding-dong ditch it game") on the doorstep of the house he shares with his lover, Grey.
Hartley What would you expect from a girl named Malice? At twelve, her definition of family is nixed when her father, Rick, reveals that he is gay and leaves home.
Contributor(s): Author: Robert F