Natalie's Joy

This is the story about the Evans, a family of four, two parents, and their two children forging a middle-class life in central Florida. Jack is a professor at the university, and Natalie is a homemaker. This is also a story about the demons that haunt us throughout our lives. As Natalie explained it to Jack when they were first dating, "I was raised by parents who should've divorced, but didn't." As a girl, Natalie stumbles upon her parents' secret and plays her role in their lie. "Men can't be trusted." This is what Natalie takes away from these early years, so she places her faith in the beauty found in art. That's until Natalie meets Jack during her final year of college. Jack needs her. She believes needing to be needed by her husband and her son will keep these demons she's buried deep in her unconscious at bay. However, life has different plans for Natalie after she learns her second child-Joy-has Down's syndrome.