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Hayley Jo Zimmerman is gone. Taken. And the people of the small town of Twisted Tree must come to terms with this terrible loss and their place in it. In this brilliantly written novel, one girl's story unfolds through the stories of those who knew her. A supermarket clerk recalls an encounter with a disturbingly thin Hayley Jo. An ex-priest remembers Hayley Jo as the best friend of Laura, whose mother he once loved. And Laura berates herself for all the running they did and how it fed her friend's addiction. Hayley Jo's death recasts and connects the lives of her community in astonishingly violent and tender ways.
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"[The] characters [are] much visited by sorrows and regrets and the demands of harsh work, but Meyers tells their stories affectingly, warmly, with a keen eye for finely observed detail."
Washington Post
"Beautiful and unsettling...The novel is brimming with arresting descriptions, and the western setting is employed to surprising effect…Meyers's small masterpiece deserves comparison to the work of Raymond Carver, Joy Williams, and Peter Matthiessen."
Publisher's Weekly (starred review)