A heady admixture of explosive plot and taut, burnished prose .
Mesha Maren writes like a force of nature.
--Lauren Groff, author of Florida In 1989, Jodi McCarty is seventeen years old when she's sentenced to life in prison.
When she's released eighteen years later, she finds herself at a Greyhound bus stop, reeling from the shock of unexpected freedom but determined to chart a better course for herself.
Not yet able to return to her lost home in the Appalachi.
Algonquin Books Sugar run, hardcover/mesha maren
