Cecilia Lisbon Timeline and Summary
MoreCecilia Lisbon Timeline and Summary
- Cecilia at thirteen is the "weird sister," interested in occult stuff and constantly wearing a shabby vintage wedding dress. She keeps a diary chronicling the everyday event of her and her sisters.
- She goes to school but doesn't really talk much to anyone and has no good friends.
- On a June day, she slits her wrists and climbs naked into the bathtub. A neighborhood boy who was sneaking around the house found her and called the police.
- The paramedics arrive and find her bleeding and pale but still alive, holding a laminated photo of the Virgin Mary.
- The doctor at the hospital sews up her wrists and gives her a blood transfusion.
- After a week in the hospital, she's sent home, with a psychiatrist's recommendation that she be allowed to socialize and wear makeup appropriate to a girl her age.
- She spends her time sitting outside, one of her sisters with her at all times.
- Two weeks after she gets home, Mr. Lisbon persuades his wife to let the girls have a party.
- Cecilia keeps to herself at the party, sitting alone with a blank look, wearing the old wedding dress and crayon for lipstick.
- She's wearing bracelets taped on to hide the scars on her wrists.
- Just as the party gets going, she asks to be excused.
- She pulls off her bracelets, has a glass of juice, and walks upstairs, looking at nobody.
- She opens the window in her bedroom and jumps.
- She lands on a spike of an iron fence in the Lisbon yard and dies.