Ann Patchett describes her friendship with Lucy Grealy, author of "Autobiography of a Face, " and their commitment to each other for twenty years, from graduate school in Iowa to literary fame in New York City.
A girl with one green eye and the other milky is sold by her drunken father into servitude to two brutish brothers from her poverty-stricken pioneer village, downriver from Lake Ontario.
In 1942, when life turns sour at the carnival that has always been her home, eleven-year-old Bee takes her dog, Peabody, and piglet, Cordelia, and sets out to find a real home, aided by two women only Bee and her pets can see.
Modo is sent on an impossible mission to depths of the sea to learn why ships have been sinking, and the secret Modo uncovers is shocking enough to send the world into a tailspin.
