Carmela, Sean and Alex begin their lives seemingly as all children do,however it quickly becomes apparent that they are different from the norm. They are deviant. Their individual psychoses align them to become the perfect triumvirate for a tragic outcome. Told from the perspective of their disheartened psychologist who had attempted to straighten their paths, the book begins examining each character’s childhood and the impacts of nature and nurture and which factor weighs heaviest in their lives. The narrator examines their parents’ attempts to steer them “right” and the unseemly and inappropriate intrigues each of them have. From Sean’s experiment to see if a playmate can breathe in a bag to Alex’s courting of danger when forbidden things. Finally, we look at sexually tantalized Carmela, who, from her formative years, is fascinated by everything sexual. As the lives of these three deviants progress, their seemingly pre-programmed behaviors and thought processes lead them ever farther from the norm of their cohorts.

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