Her older sister Brenda was tall, athletic, competitive, and sure of herself. But April Taylor was short, sensitive, and overweight - and she couldn't bounce back from their father's cutting criticisms the way Brenda did. April didn't know why their once-loving dad had become a coldhearted monster, but she was sure it had something to do with her. And she could see how this cruel behavoir was tearing away at her gentle mother. But a glimmer of happiness returns when Brenda brings home her colelge roomate; beautiful, bewitching Celia. And April wonders if she might not be so different from Brenda after all.
