Overview of Broken As Things Are

From the day that Morgan-Lee is born, her extraordinarily beautiful and withdrawn older brother, Ginx, is obsessed by her.

As Aunt Lois recalls: "Ginx thought you belonged to him, Morgan-Lee. He would sit on our big couch right there in his sailor's suit and hold on to you for dear life…He didn't speak normal till he was five. Then-bang-one day he's just talking away in complete sentences. But he wouldn't say I. He said we, meaning you and him."

Morgan-Lee is the only person who is able to understand and engage Ginx. Sharing a secret language, they escape together into a make-believe world. Unable to articulate his emotions, except through garbled, nonsensical words, Ginx becomes increasingly disturbed by Morgan-Lee's desire for friendships beyond the closed circle of their sibling love.

The summer that Morgan-Lee turns fourteen she encounters the strange Sweety-Boy and her half-brother Jacob, and is faced with having to choose between her love for the increasingly violent Ginx and a life without him.

In a luminous voice, Martha Witt creates both the intense, private world of childhood and imagination and the inevitable and necessary pain of separation when Morgan Lee finds love beyond her fractured and damaged family.

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