Description

On Christmas nights 1998, Karen Meyers discovers that her twenty-year-old child, Treasure, has chained herself away from American embassy in Dublin, where she expects to deny herself to death. Though Nancy was once students revolutionary and still happily lifestyles by her values, mild, book-loving Gem hasn't been thinking about politics–nor within the Catholicism her mom declined decades before. What, then, is driving her to martyr himself? Shaken by this secret, Karen and her childhood buddy (and Pearl’s surrogate dad), Frederick Kasperman, equally hurry to Pearl’s aspect.