Amity & Sorrow

by Peggy Riley

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AMITY & SORROW is a story about God, sex, and farming. It's THE LOVELY BONES meets WITNESS: an unforgettable journey into the horrors a true believer can inflict upon his family, and what it is like to live when the end of the world doesn't come.

In the wake of a suspicious fire, Amaranth gathers her barely-teenage daughters, Amity and Sorrow, and flees from the cult her husband ran. After four days of driving, Amaranth crashes the car, leaving the family stranded at a gas station. Rescue comes in the unlikely form of a downtrodden farmer, a man who...

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  • ISBN10 0316220884
  • ISBN13 9780316220880
  • Publish Date 16 April 2013 (first published 1 January 2013)
  • Publish Status Out of Stock
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Little, Brown & Company
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 320
  • Language English