Imagine if Annie Proulx wrote something like White Oleander crossed with Geek Love or Cruddy , and then add cults, God, motherhood, girlhood, class, deserts, witches, the divinity of women .
It introduces a writer who gives Flannery O\'Connor\'s Gothic parables a Californian twist and who emerges with a miracle that is all her own..
Possessed of an unstoppable plot and a brilliantly soulful voice, Godshot is a book of grit and humor and heart, a debut novel about female friendship and resilience, mother-loss and motherhood, and seeking salvation in unexpected places.
As Lacey May endures the increasingly appalling acts of men who want to write all the rules and begins to uncover the full extent of Pastor Vern\'s shocking plan to bring fertility back to the land, she decides she must find her mother no matter what it takes.
Abandoned and distraught, Lacey May moves in with her widowed grandma, Cherry, who is more concerned with her taxidermy mouse collection than her own granddaughter.
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.
Lacey has no reason to doubt the pastor.
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. --T Kira Madden, author of Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls Drought has settled on the town of Peaches, California.
Terrifying, resplendent, and profoundly moving, this book will leave you changed. . .
Imagine if Annie Proulx wrote something like White Oleander crossed with Geek Love or Cruddy , and then add cults, God, motherhood, girlhood, class, deserts, witches, the divinity of women
