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"An hour from the closest West Virginia mining town, fifteen-year-old Wren Bird lives in a cloistered mountain cabin with her parents. They have no car, no mailbox, and no visitors-except for her mother's lifelong best friend. Every Sunday, Wren's father delivers winding sermons in an abandoned gas station, where he takes up serpents and praises the Lord for his blighted white eye, proof of his divinity and key to the hold he has over the community, over Wren and her mother. But over the course of one summer, a miracle performed by Wren's father quickly turns to tragedy. As the order of her world begins to shatter, Wren must uncover the truth of her father's mysterious legend and her mother's harrowing history and complex bond with her best friend.
About the Author
Amy Jo Burns is the author of the memoir Cinderland, and her novel Shiner is forthcoming from Riverhead Books. Her writing has appeared in The Paris Review Daily, Tin House, Good Housekeeping, Electric Literature, Literary Hub, Ploughshares, and the anthology Not That Bad.
