Novel for young adults about a teenage girl's encounters with piercing, pizzas, and the healing power of love. Madonna O'Dwyer is a hardworking girl with a drama queen sister, and a dad who sounds Irish when he's drunk. Her mother died when she was young, leaving a hole that she has struggled to fill. At seventeen years, she is strangling demons from her past, and praying for a spirited future. By the author of 'One Dead Seagull' and 'White Ute Dreaming'.