She gets there and figures out she is safe and loves for the first time ever.
Ari gets last choice and is shipped off to live with her aunt, Mary Catherine, who her mother despises her for being a lesbian, and Ari believes she eats little girls. She splits up all the girls to live with relatives. Their mother is unable to take care of them, she failed to protect them while their father was alive, and after his death. Her mother misuses drugs and chooses bad men. She struggles with what her father’s left behind, what is left of her family, and her mother’s bad habits.
The daughters father, Vincent Appleton sexually assaulted most of them, and with his final moment of hatred he blows off his own head. The girls must deal with chaotic and abusive lives while trying to have relationships with others. The Appleton sisters, lives have been a mess from the beginning but this time their lives have erupted. Hariet deals with the loss of childhood, the bond of a family, and growing up. Ari is an eight-years-old, she came from a family of six daughters, Jennah, June, Jacquie, Jory, and Jillianne, and her (Hariet). The book begins in the 1960s, the readers meet Hariet Appleton, Ari for short.
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