They married and he took her back to his hometown with him, in a prized motor car they took from Lenore. Left to fend for herself, Cee's head was quickly turned by a man named Prince from Atlanta. Lenore hated Cee the most because she was born after the family was evicted from their home in Texas, and thought her inauspicious birth augured future bad behavior.įrank was always protective of Cee and took the brunt of any anger directed towards both of them this was to shield her, which was well-meaning but ultimately damaging to Cee, who never learned how to defend herself emotionally or physically.
They had a rough childhood their grandfather's wife, Lenore, was verbally abusive and their hardworking parents were disconnected from them and later died. Frank suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder and lapses into "episodes" which leave him hospitalized in a mental institution at the beginning of the novel.įrank and Cee grew up in a sleepy, middle-of-nowhere small town called Lotus, in the state of Georgia. He receives a mysterious and anonymous note telling him to travel to Atlanta, Georgia, to rescue his sister Cee, urging him to come quickly because if he is tardy Cee might be dead before he gets there. Frank Money is twenty-four years old and a veteran of the Korean War.
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