The Things That Always Were

It is 1962 and ten year old Annie is fighting to survive a stepfather and mentally ill mother who abuse her physically and emotionally. It hadn't always been this way. Just a few years before, Annie was safe in Yakima with her parents and three brothers and sisters in the white house with the picket fence and the swing set in the backyard. Then her parents divorced and her mother took the kids to Missouri. Within a year Annie's mother was hospitalized with a nervous breakdown. The children ...