Seattle: Seal Press, (1990). The author's very highly praised first novel which "explores the psychic repercussions of growing up in an alcoholic family, and the ways in which one womans past continues to inform and inhabit her life. Robin Daleys childhood is dominated by a sense of impermanence: Her father, a hard-drinking military pilot, disappears as suddenly and unexpectedly as he arrives. Her adulthood offers an escape, but strange things happen when the dark corners and locked rooms of family life are revealed." 196 pp. ISBN: 0-931188881.