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"Chelsea Bieker's Godshot is an absolute masterpiece. A truly epic journey through girlhood, divinity, and the blood that binds and divides us, it is a feminist magnum opus of this, or any, time. Bieker is a pitch-perfect ventriloquist of extraordinary talent and ferocity. Imagine if Annie Proulx wrote something like White Oleandercrossed with Geek Love or Cruddy, and then add cults, God, motherhood, girlhood, class, deserts, witches, the divinity of women . . . Terrifying, resplendent, and profoundly moving, this book will leave you changed." -- T Kira Madden, author of Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless GirlsDrought has settled on the town of Peaches, California. The area of the Central Valley where fourteen-year-old Lacey May and her alcoholic mother live was once an agricultural paradise.
About the Author
Chelsea Bieker is from California's Central Valley. She is the recipient of a 2018 Rona Jaffe Writer's Foundation Award, and the author of the novel GODSHOT and the forthcoming story collection, COWBOYS AND ANGELS. Her writing has been published in The Paris Review, Granta, The Cut, McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, LitHub, Electric Literature, and others. Her work has been supported by the MacDowell Colony and the Tin House Writer's Workshop. She holds a BS in journalism from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, and an MFA in creative writing from Portland State University.
