Godshot : a novel / Chelsea Bieker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bieker, Chelsea, 1987- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Teenage girls--Fiction.

Teenage girls.

Abandoned children--Fiction.

Abandoned children.

Mother and child--Fiction.

Mother and child.

Cults--Fiction.

Cults.

Female friendship--Fiction.

Female friendship.

California--Fiction.

California.

Genre:

Fiction.

Domestic fiction.

Coming of age fiction.

Social problem fiction.

Bildungsromans.

Physical Description:

325 pages ; 21 cm

Other Title:

God shot

Place of Publication:

New York : Catapult, [2020]

Summary:

"Drought 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. Now it's an environmental disaster, a place of cracked earth and barren raisin farms. In their desperation, residents have turned to a cult leader named Pastor Vern for guidance. He promises, through secret 'assignments', to bring the rain everybody is praying for. Lacey has no reason to doubt the pastor. 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. 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. 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 go on a quest to find her mother no matter what it takes. With her only guidance coming from the romance novels she reads and the unlikely companionship of the women who knew her mother, she must find her own way through unthinkable circumstances."--Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9781948226486

1948226480

OCLC:

1112267315

Publisher Number:

99984106338