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With the inventiveness and emotional power of Promise Not to Tell, The Death of Bees, and After Her, a powerful literary debut about family and friendship, good and evil, grief and forgiveness.He is not evil. I am not good. We are the same: broken and put back together again.Still grieving the sudden death of their mother, Sam and her younger sister Ollie McAlister move from the comforts of Eugene to rural Oregon to live in a meadow in a teepee under the stars with Bear, their beekeeper father. But soon after they arrive, a young woman is found dead floating in Crooked River, and the police arrest their eccentric father for the murder.Fifteen-year-old Sam knows that Bear is not a killer, even though the evidence points to his guilt. Unwilling to accept that her father could have hurt anyone, Sam embarks on a desperate hunt to save him and keep her damaged family together.
About the Author
Valerie Geary is the author of the forthcoming novel EVERYTHING WE LOST. Her first novel CROOKED RIVER was a finalist for the Ken Kesey Award and internationally published in France, Germany, Belgium, and Japan. Her short stories have appeared in The Rumpus, Day One, and other publications. She lives and writes full-time in Portland, Oregon. You can find her on Litsy @valeriegeary or visit her website www.valeriegeary.com.
