Tarah was a daughter, a mother, sister and wife, a dancer, a scout and ultimately a statistic of AIDS. Yet, in the end she shares her memories with a lifeless machine. She tells this heartless thing all the lessons of love, lies and lust that she has learned and endured, in a series of flashbacks to her earliest memories. Her descriptions offer a macabre sampling of abuse, incest, nightmares, rape, terror, death and a taste of love.
While coping with the circumstances of her young life, she learns the most important and tragic lesson of all that promiscuity can kill. Bizarre twists of fate and fancy cause love, pain, affection, sadness and joy to become a blended confusion in her mind. She becomes a victim of her own innocence, ignorance and guilt.
After enjoying a thoroughly engrossing read, you will be left with a memory that could haunt your thoughts for the rest of your life. However, don’t expect it to read like a lecture.
