The Geranium Story: What's it all about, anyway?

So what's this "Geranium Story" all about, anyway?



 

It's about Lillian Picoletti...
At fifteen, she's become adept at hiding her wretched home-life - at not getting too close to anyone outside her family - at bearing up under the tremendous emotional strain her papa puts on their family. She desperately presses to finish high school and escape the gutter in which she was born.

 

It's