Silas Dillon of Cary County in Bloomington, MN

Silas Dillon’s chemically dependent, emotionally unstable birth mother abandons him in a typical bureaucratic foster care system; and she remains selfishly unwilling to release him for adoption. Alternating between brief stays with his unstable mother and various foster homes, Silas’s growing loneliness, alienation, anger, and self-destructive nature make coping through youth and early adulthood formidable.