Chapters 10 and 11 Summary and Analysis

Sharon was helping David pack up and move from his apartment. He blamed the neighbors but as usual she blamed him for getting such a cheap apartment and for turning down a full-time job that would have allowed him to get a better apartment. Brandi, a little nine-year-old neighbor, and her mother lived next door David. Her mother was a bartender and left Brandi alone everyday from late afternoon until the wee hours of the morning.

Brandi's mother would wake her daughter in the middle of the night and yell at her for leaving a dirty dish or not cleaning the bathtub. David couldn't help but overhear and increasingly he began to realize that Brandi was at the least being emotionally and mentally abused. Brandi gravitated toward David. Most mothers wouldn't encourage a relationship between their nine-year-old daughter and...