Heir to the Astor lega­cy, Alexan­dra Aldrich, tells the sto­ry of her eccen­tric, frac­tured fam­i­ly; her child­hood, over­shad­owed by the fam­i­ly’s glo­ri­ous past, spent in the squalid attic of the fam­i­ly’s Hud­son Val­ley Man­sion; and her escape from the clan.