![]() ![]() But then her life explodes in a single unimaginable act of abandonment: her mother, exiled from the community for her sins, leaves Lacey and runs off with a man she barely knows. He promises, through secret “assignments,” to bring the rain everybody is praying for. ![]() In their desperation, residents have turned to a cult leader named Pastor Vern for guidance. Now it’s an environmental disaster, a place of cracked earth and barren raisin farms. The area of the Central Valley where fourteen-year-old Lacey May and her alcoholic mother live was once an agricultural paradise. From learning about sexuality from romance novels to navigating morals through a religion cult leader, Godshot is fiercely written exploration of poverty, desperation, abandonment and ignorance.ĭrought has settled on the town of Peaches, California. Chelsea Bieker’s debut novel Godshot is a motherless coming-of-age story where one young girl must navigate adulthood – figuring out things like sexuality, identity, trauma, and resilience on her own. ![]()
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