We Were the Mulvaneys

I read We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates several years ago. Yesterday I found the DVD on sale for $6.88 at Giant Tiger. It is a fine story that reveals just how far reaching the after shocks of a traumatic event can be. An entire family is destroyed by the rape of the only daughter, but the basic strength that the family had instilled in each of the children allowed them to finally emerge whole. They had been irrevocably changed, but in many ways they were strengthened by what had happened.