Rock-A-Bye Baby

Pity poor Precious Gordon. She's a woman who for all her married life has been a loyal, dutiful wife. Like all good spouses, she dutifully support her husband 100%. It is only after he becomes terminally ill that she learns he's been having an affair with the couple next door. Adding insult to injury, he blames her for his illness. Having been protected all her life, Precious is ill prepared for the many disappointments and abuses that get heaped on her by her daughter, her neighbor, minister, and undertaker. In time, she tries to move on with her life only to be hurt again and again.When the story opens, Precious is poised atop the Luhrs' Tower in downtown Phoenix. Her plan is to throw herself fourteen stories below. It is on the crenelated parapet of this building she meets a wise man and is confronted with her own hypocrisy. When her body goes over the edge, she decides she doesn't want to die.