From the author of Bough Down, a found, collaged and lovingly amended inquiry into how women disappearArtist and writer Karen Green's second book originated in a search for a woman who had vanished: her Aunt Constance whom Green knew only from a few family photos and keepsakes. In her absence, Green has constructed an elliptical arrangement of artifacts from an untold life. In this rescued history, Green imagines for her aunt a childhood in which she is bold, reckless, perspicacious, mischievous; an adolescence ripe with desire and scarred by violation and loss; and an adulthood in which she strives to sing above the incessant din of violence.Constance-one half of a sister duo put to work performing as musical prodigies in the dirt-poor town of Oil City, Pennsylvania.