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Named one of the most anticipated books of the year by O The Oprah Magazine Vulture Buzzfeed Bustle Paste Electric Literature SF Chronicle and more. A dark deft first novel about the trauma and resilience of both people and the land they inhabit. ? Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review)Chelsea Bieker's Godshot is an absolute masterpiece. A truly epic journey throughNamed one of the most anticipated books of the year by O The Oprah Magazine Vulture Buzzfeed Bustle Paste Electric Literature SF Chronicle and more. A dark deft first novel about the trauma and resilience of both people and the land they inhabit. ? Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review)Chelsea Bieker's Godshot is an absolute masterpiece. A truly epic journey through girlhood divinity and the blood that binds and divides us it is a feminist magnum opus of this or any time. Bieker is a pitch-perfect ventriloquist of extraordinary talent and ferocity. 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 . . . Terrifying resplendent and profoundly moving this book will leave you changed. ?T Kira Madden author of Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless GirlsDrought 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 its 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 mice 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 Verns 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.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. It introduces a writer who gives Flannery OConnors Gothic parables a Californian twist and who emerges with a miracle that is all her own.(less)

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