Jeliza-Rose is a young girl in a very unusual situation--both of her parents are junkies and she is usually left to her own devices for entertainment. When her mother dies, her father, a rock 'n roll musician well past his prime, takes her to a remote farm in the country. She escapes the vast loneliness of her new home by retreating into a world that exists only in her mind. Here, fireflies have names, bog-men awaken at dusk, and squirrels talk. And the heads of her four dolls--ystique, Baby Blonde, Glitter Gal, and Sateen Lips--long since separated from their bodies, keep her company.

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