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5.0 • 2 Ratings
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
A stubborn teenager and her estranged uncle descend into the Arkansas underworld to track down her missing fiancé, in a riveting literary noir perfect for fans of Daniel Woodrell and "Mare of Easttown".
Up until now, 18-year-old Lily Stevens has always been the perfect daughter of a Pentecostal preacher, but her insular Arkansas congregation is scandalized when Lily announces she’s pregnant with the baby of Peter Cutchin, a young man in the church. When Peter disappears before they can get married, Lily’s life is thrown into even greater turmoil. Everyone in their small town, including Peter’s furious mother, thinks the boy has simply run off and abandoned her, but Lily, furiously headstrong and determined to find the father of her child, refuses to believe it.
Help comes in the unlikely form of Allan Woodson, an uncle that her family will not acknowledge but a man who may know where to begin looking for Peter. Their search will lead them out of Lily’s safe world of the church and into the darkest corners of the criminal underworld on the Arkansas/Tennessee border, where neither Allan nor Lily can foresee the unsettling secrets they will uncover.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
At the start of this exceptional tale of crime and courage from Hinkson (Dry County), 18-year-old Lily Stevens, who's 25 weeks pregnant and the daughter of a Pentecostal preacher, walks into the Conway, Ark., police station to report that her fiancé and the father of her child, college dropout Peter Cutchin, has been missing for more than a week. The last time Lily saw Peter, a Friday after school, he was strangely quiet. The police chief learns from Peter's mother that her son has gone to Little Rock and is staying with some friends there, though she doesn't know where exactly. Unable to get help from her family, her church, or police authorities, Lily turns to her unacknowledged uncle, Allan Woodson, a desk clerk at the run-down inn where Peter worked. Allan, an outcast because he's gay, reluctantly accompanies Lily to morally decadent Little Rock in search of Peter. Sharply delineated characters are matched by assured prose. Bigotry and religious intolerance are counterpointed by compassion and reconciliation. This sensitive novel, a parable for today's harsh social conflicts, is not to be missed.
Customer Reviews
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