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Just how can you possibly get when you're your personal worst enemy? Nancy Elaine Bower (Nan to people who know her well) seasons a youth overshadowed by mom's martyrdom and her father's alcoholism simply to be forced into a maturity littered with landmines of self-destruction. Each decision she makes turns and contorts her existence in ways, till ultimately she's left in a crumpled pile on her mother's doorstep. It is 1960, 2 yrs later, and Nan nevertheless fulfills every day as though a stranger intent on doing her damage.