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In Reserve One, Iris and Lily will be the lovably ingenuous youngest daughters in a family group of 14, starving for attention as they struggle to make it through in the chaotic Capotosti household. The explosive rage of Carlo, their hot-blooded dad; the submissiveness of Betty, their overwhelmed mother; the abuse meted out by six domineering brothers; the inaccessible ken with their elderly sisters; all get together to help make the home a minefield of psychological pitfalls for the two neglected women, whose natural exuberance is squelched by worries of punishment and the dictates of Catholicism. As Iris and Lily scrape their way through puberty to adolescence, outside the house forces begin driving a wedge between them. The favoritism of any aunt, the shame of sexual abuse, the socioeconomic shifts and eruption of the women's activity of the '70s become the catalysts that lead to the disintegration of what little security was once proposed by their family. In need of love, Iris and Lily naively take refuge in marriages that drive them worlds aside, altering their marriage as sisters drastically. Told in alternating chapters in the voices of the two protagonists, sprinkled with shows of comedy and tragedy that will make you have fun and cry, this is actually the story of each woman who have memory of what it is similar to to be a little girl, then a young girl on the cusp of adulthood, filled with hope and targets. Iris & Lily: Reserve One is the first in a three-volume series.
