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When seven-year-old Bethany matches her six-year-old cousin Reana Mae, it is the beginning of an kinship of misfits that will save both from a bone-deep loneliness. Every summer months, Bethany and her family leave Indianapolis for West Virginia's Coal River Valley. For Bethany's mom, the journeys are a reminder of the coalmines and milling poverty of her childhood, of a location she'd hoped to escape. But her caring family members, and Bethany's companionship with Reana Mae, keep them coming back. But as Bethany expands aged, she realizes that life in this small, close-knit community is much less simple as she once thought. . .that the riverside cabins that keep so a lot of her family's background also teem with scandalous whispers. . .which those closest to her harbor unimaginable secrets. Amid the dense woods and noiseless beauty of the valley, these secrets are coming to light finally, with a force devastating enough to shatter lives, faith, and the bond that Bethany once thought would last permanently. Spanning four ages, Sherri Solid wood Emmons' debut is a haunting, captivating novel about the unpredicted, sometimes shocking occasions that thrust us into adulthood - and the associations that keep us tethered, always, to our pasts.
