In the late 1960s, Tilly Rudolph left her middle-class home in the suburbs and settled in the sleazy underworld of Reno, where she spent several decades working as a prostitute, nursing a clinic for addictions and drinking herself to the brink of Death, in his dusty motor home. One day, after almost thirty years without a family, her niece Stella appears at the door of her house and changes her lives forever. The gin closet reveals the strange and powerful intimacy between them, shifting their perspective by moving to San Francisco to make a home with Abe, the hard-working, melancholic son of Tilly, building a fragile triangle that soon falls under his own weight. Written with a sharp ear for dialogue and an unshakable candor about sex, love and power, this book marks the debut of an astonishing new talent in American fiction.