Our pa was gone, our ma was dead. Couldn't Georgie see those folks was fixing to parcel us out to separate places where we might never see each other again in our lives?

For twelve-year-old Mony, a small town in Georgia and the stories her pa tells are all she knows of life. Then disaster strikes, and Mony, her beloved older sister Georgie, and their baby sister are suddenly all on their own. They must learn to survive, just the three of them. But Mony alone must fight against the one secret she fears will destroy them as a family.

Told in a funny, sensitive, and heartbreakingly original voice, the story of Mony and her sisters is the story of the unbreakable ties of love, devotion, and family history.