One significant, and long-anticipated moment, and a single, particularly intimate encounter in the dark and troubled life of a strange young girl.
Somewhere on the outskirts of town, live a girl and deranged mother. Late one day the persistent attentions, from a distance, of a neighbourhood boy, finally draw Gloria from under the spell: Gloria shrugs off the fetid shroud of childhood and home, and steps out into the approaching night.—Billie Loebner