Sean Wilsey's life still in pieces returns home from Cascade, the treatment center. Rejecting the world Sean's sits in his room and looks out to the San Francisco Bay recalling: " Mom was depressed and humiliated and suicidal. Mom experienced brief spasms of superhuman energy to save the planet, to shop,to be pampered to escape, to combine all of these desires. Dad was hardworking, ambitious, a striver, a social success at last. I had escaped from St. Mark's, Woodhall, Cascade. I was home" (314). Remembering his home, although not great, it was home. If someone were not to read this memoir but instead only read this quote, a person could almost say they have read the book. Sean describes his mother and father to a T! In a way he also describes himself by the way he speaks of his parents. There is one major change however in Sean's feelings. Through this quote we are beginning to see signs of Sean's compassion for his father. In the beginning of the memoir Sean spoke poorly of his father; but now he has shifted his opinions. Maybe this shift was one shift to soon. Later in the memoir Sean and his mother, Father and Dede, Sean's "step-mother," had been attending and opera when sean made an attempt to greet his father: " When he was two feet away I smiled and said, Hey Dad! he brushed by without a flicker of hesitation giving me half a second of eye contact. I ran after him and grabbed his shoulder and said, Hey dad it's me! He nodded absently then looked over my shoulder"(324). It was to soon to be favoring his father. It seems as though his father could care less that he was back from the treatment center. Maybe Coming home wasn't such a good idea after all.