![]() ![]() Marnie’s two best friends are Kimbo - a bipolar, volatile girl - and Susie-a talented but depressed girl who lives with her grandmother after her mother abandoned her. He speaks to his dead lover and tells him how the girls should never try to plant in the winter.Īs Izzy and Gene were known drug addicts and drunks, no one in the neighborhood is surprised that they’ve disappeared. Their neighbor, Lennie, watches their gardening from his window. She and Nelly scrub the house with bleach, but the foul odor of Gene’s body still lingers. Marnie insists they buy some lavender to cover the graves and hopefully hide the smell. Their mother, Izzy, has an easier burial. The body leaks and then falls apart as they struggle to drag it down the stairs, out of the house and into the garden. ![]() ![]() Unfortunately, their father, Gene, died in his bed, and they waited a week before burying him. As Marnie has always taken care of the family - doing laundry, food shopping, paying bills - she won’t let her parents’ deaths tear her and her sister apart. Marnie must enlist her sister’s help in burying their dead parents, because if the bodies were discovered, the girls would be separated in foster care. The story begins on Christmas Eve, Marnie’s 15th birthday. The novel takes place in Glasgow, Scotland, and is told from three different points of view: 15-year-old Marnie, her 12-year-old sister, Nelly, and Lennie, their homosexual, elderly neighbor. ![]()
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