Chelsea bieker godshot6/30/2023 ![]() ![]() But then her life explodes in a single unimaginable act of abandonment: her mother, exiled from the community for her sins, leaves Lacey and runs off with a man she barely knows. He promises, through secret “assignments,” to bring the rain everybody is praying for. In their desperation, residents have turned to a cult leader named Pastor Vern for guidance. Now it’s an environmental disaster, a place of cracked earth and barren raisin farms. The area of the Central Valley where fourteen-year-old Lacey May and her alcoholic mother live was once an agricultural paradise. This “haunting debut” novel of a teenage girl in thrall to a magnetic preacher is “a timely and disturbing portrait of how easily men can take advantage of vulnerable women–and the consequences sink in more deeply with each page” (Annabel Gutterman, Time).ĭrought has settled on the town of Peaches, California. ![]()
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