Shifting Through Neutral

<p>Not yet a woman yet more than a little girl Rae Dodson is caught up in her family's drama. Her hip older sister Kimmie whom her mother favors has moved from New Orleans to join them in Detroit a city that moves as if in synch with the Stevie Wonder tunes that play giddily from new automobiles fresh off the factory lots. Her bid whist-playing mother is as nervous as ever and her father's chronic migraines seem less responsive to medication. And while they all occupy the same house they might as well be living separate lives. When the tenuous peace finally breaks Rae must decide where her loyalties lie: should she choose her emotionally distant mother whom she adores or her affectionate but needy father? Rae does choose and launches into a rich loving relationship with her dad for whom she shows a fierce undying loyalty. But as she matures she must find a way amid her own budding sexuality to be both Daddy's girl and her own woman.</p>