When Reverend Joseph plucks a gravely wounded child from the mean streets of Manhattanś rough Five Points District, he intends to give her a real home. And though Kassandra flourishes in the preacherś house, learning Bible verses at his knee and going to school, as a young teenager she makes the first of many devastating decisions, running away from the only haven sheś ever known. What follows is a waking nightmare: life in a tiny room above a...