![]() ![]() Lyrical, yet humorous, Barbara Stuber’s debut novel is the unforgettable story of a girl who struggles to cast aside her long-standing grief and doubt and, in the span of one dusty summer, learn to trust, hope, and-ultimately-love. Iris must find the guts and cunning to take aim at the devil incarnate and discover if she is really as helpless-or as hopeless-as she once believed. Iris is buoyed by the warmth and understanding the doctor and his mother show her, but just as she starts to break out of her shell, tragedy strikes. ![]() Suddenly Iris is alone, stuck in gritty rural Missouri, too far from her only friend Leroy and too close to a tenant farmer, Cecil Deets, who menaces the neighbors and, Iris suspects, his own daughter. Unbeknownst to her, he hires Iris out as housekeeper and companion for a country doctor’s elderly mother. After her mother’s early death, Iris’s father focuses on big plans for his new shoe stores and his latest girlfriend, and has no time for his daughter. At fifteen, Iris is a hobo of sorts - no home, no family, no direction. ![]()
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