The Gibson Girl

From the recesses of the girls bathroom comes a voice: utterly unruly and viciously vivacious. Its owner is twelve-year-old Valerie, whose life would be a thousand times more endurable if her twin sister would quit her daughter-knows-best act and her mother would abandon her peculiar rituals that she hopes will lure the girls’ long absent father home with syrup tapped from trees in the family’s front yard. But the forces that stifle Valerie’s spirit are facing extinction and strange alliances threaten to unearth a deep secret that, if exposed, will reverse the girls’ fortunes forever.