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"From the acclaimed author of Spoonbenders comes the gripping tale about a family's mysterious religion and the daughter who turned her back on their god. In 1933, nine-year-old Stella is left by her father in the care of her grandmother, Motty, in the backwoods of Tennessee. The remote hills of the Smoky Mountains are home to dangerous secrets, and upon her arrival, Stella wanders into a dark cavern where she encounters the presence of the family's personal god, an entity known only as Ghostdaddy. Fifteen years later, after a tragic incident causes her to flee, Stella--now a professional…
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2 editions- Hardcover · English · 2021Knopf · 352 pages · 9780525657385
- Other · English · 2024Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · 9781984898487
American literatureFamiliesReligious lifeFictionFamily secretsFICTION / HorrorFICTION / GothicFICTION / Southern