Winona Wendy Joy

Marnie is the oldest of three children who are orphaned in New York when they are told their parents died in an automobile accident. The three can’t seek help because they know they are in the country illegally, the family having arrived from Europe in mysterious circumstances and the children had always been cautioned to say nothing about anything they recalled from their background.
Although Marnie is underage to work, she supports the family with her wages in good and safe employment. That is, until tragedy strikes and she can no longer work. She is tried severely as she seeks to guide and guard the little family through unexplained events, food addiction, politics, death and near-death, amputation, sex, Communism, Russia, spies, the CIA and FBI, psychological momentum and love.