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"A big, moving novel of one tight-knit Texas community and the events that alter its residents' lives forever. Friendswood, Texas, is a small Gulf Coast town of church suppers, oil rigs on the horizon, hurricane weather, and high school football games. When tragedy rears its head with an industrial leak that kills and sickens residents, it pulls on the common thread that runs through the community, intensifying everything. From a confused sixteen-year-old girl beset by visions, to a high school football star tormented by his actions, to a mother galvanized by the death of her teen daughter,…
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3 editions- Other · English · 2017Penguin Publishing Group · 400 pages · 9781594633836
- Other · English · 2015Thorndike Press · 563 pages · 9781410475671
- Other · English · 2014Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA) · 350 pages · 9781594632518
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