Nuns go by as quiet as lust, and drunken men and sober eyes sing in the lobby of the Greek hotel.
Claudia MacTeer talks about her life and her surrounding environment in the fall of 1940. She and her sister, Frieda, live next door to Rosemary Villanucci . Rosemary is white and Claudia and her sister are black. As children, they are to be seen and not heard. If Claudia becomes ill, she is told it is her fault and that she should have been more considerate because now, she cannot help around the house with the work that needs to be done.