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She never thinks of herself as lonely

When she finally surfaces and returns home

A relationship with a man who expects her to plant roots

but with their lives"--

Shiner alaska " and now Agnes's addictionAn hour from the closest West Virginia mining town, fifteen year old Wren Bird lives in a cloistered mountain cabin with her parents. They have no car, no mailbox, and no visitors except for her mother's lifelong best friend. Every Sunday, Wren's father delivers winding sermons in an abandoned gas station, where he takes up serpents and praises the Lord for his blighted white eye, proof of his divinity and key to the hold he has over the community,