Welcome to Tranquil Oaks!

Step right on in to this decaying plantation home, make yourself comfortable and join in the hilarity and heartbreak of a family teetering on the brink.

Tranquil Oaks, the family’s ancestral plantation, is no stranger to uncommon behavior. For over a century, dementia has reigned supreme, beginning with old Elise Sherman who built the place to Aunt Ellie who communicates with her through dreams in her search for the long-lost family treasure.

Join Cissy and Little Brother in their quest for normalcy as they discover the attic room that becomes their private retreat from the lunacy of their family, their own Solitude. Only the two of them know about it and it becomes one of their most closely guarded secrets. Solitude is the place where they can find refuge when the world around them becomes too hectic. For Cissy, it becomes her haven, her solace and her personal sanity. She can escape to it anytime she wants to, no matter where she is. In her mind, she eventually flees to Solitude and doesn’t return.

Once the decision is made to commit Cissy to a sanitarium, Little Brother sets off on a mission to learn exactly to where she has retreated and to find out what would bring her back from her world of silent torment. It is a journey of commitment between a brother and sister from childhood to adulthood in an atmosphere of stark loneliness.

Growin’ Up Crazy is a heartwarming, fun, sometimes sad, yet always entertaining romp through the history of one Southern family’s madcap travels from mildly wacky to downright crazy.