"First, I'll tell about the robbery our parents committed. Then about the murders, which happened later." When fifteen-year-old dell parsons' parents rob a bank, his sense of normal life is forever altered. In an instant..."First, I'll tell about the robbery our parents committed. Then about the murders, which happened later." When fifteen-year-old dell parsons' parents rob a bank, his sense of normal life is forever altered. In an instant, this private cataclysm drives his life into before and after, a threshold that can never be uncrossed.