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Gr 9 Up—The son of a snake-handling preacher imprisoned for possessing child pornography, Dill escapes his controlling mother and social ostracism with the help of his two friends, Lydia and Travis. As the trio round out their senior year, it becomes overwhelmingly apparent the different paths their lives are going to take—Travis is content working in a lumberyard and diving into a fantasy world from a book series in his spare time, while Lydia runs a popular fashion blog and is intent on attending New ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Three misfits in small-town Forrestville, Tennessee, have found solace in one another, but the start of senior year throws their vastly different post-high school options into high relief. Dill, the son of a disgraced snake-handling preacher, knows he'll spend the foreseeable future paying off his family's debts by working at the local grocer; likewise, Travis, whose father has only grown more abusive since the death of Travis's ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Three misfits have vastly different post–high school options. Dill, son of a disgraced preacher, and Travis, whose father has grown more abusive si...Log In or Sign Up to Read More