A wildly entertaining and sometimes bleak memoir. Rennie, 14 years old, is woken by her mother in the middle of the night and brought into the folds of an adulterous secret. Who better to help her narcissistic mother pull up a years long affair than a child that no one would suspect? I truly felt for this child and then woman as she brings us on the journey of her life that is affected in every way by the secret she feels compelled to keep. Malabar, the "mother" in this is by turns affectionate, caring, and abhorrent. Selfish until very nearly the end, her single minded devotion to herself drives her daughter to chronic stomach pain and envelopes every relationship Rennie will ever have. Fascinating read.