“…Un trágico tiroteo en una escuela deja nueve muertos y a la joven Deanna Cartwright seriamente herida. Cuando Alicia Browning, testigo y sospechosa a la vez del suceso, visita a Deanna en el hospital, entre las dos se formará una insólita amistad. …”

“…In richly textured readings of works by Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, among others, she argues that depictions of fallen women express profound cultural anxieties about the very possibility of self-control and traditional moral responsibility…”