When one grown daughter is a flagrant San Francisco lesbian who has won and lost an international journalism award only to reinvent herself as a glitter spray salesgirl—and the other daughter is spearheading a born-again anti-abortion movement and no longer talks to her parents—the family obviously has a few issues to work out.
Meet the Sorens.
Gloria Soren, the 28-year-old “glitter girl” in the novel, is picking up the pieces of a spectacularly failed career and wrestling with the habit of fibbing that got her in trouble in the first place.
The younger Soren sister, Angie, has strayed away from her secular family right through the sliding glass doors of a small church located in a nearby mini-mall. The family has been in a standoff with Angie for a few years when Gloria decides to find her sister in an effort to make up.
