Being Fishkill

Born in the back seat of a moving car and raised without security or love, thirteen-year-old Carmel Fishkill defends herself with her fists and hides her secrets from teachers and social workers. Then a failed lunch theft brings her to sunny, eccentric Duck-Duck Farina and her mother, Molly, and the three form a tentative family. That new start is threatened by the return of Fishkill's unstable mother and by a sudden tragedy.