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A finely recognized and lovingly comprehensive portrait of a female trying to find a community and understand her own troubled history. After spending 2 decades in jails, psych wards, and halfway homes for her peripheral engagement in a radical students' bombing story, thirty-six-year-old Carol Smith winds up squatting in a tattered space in Spanish Harlem. She spends nearly all her vagrant times socializing with her homeless friends and neighbors, arguing with a testy public staff member, and wandering the avenues with Alphonse, a wayward South African wino and self-professed acting professional. Alphonse shows to be an inspiring pressure, and soon Carol is weaning herself off antidepressants as the sifting of her memories - usually of her upbringing by two aunts in Massachusetts - creates a chance for redemption.
