num_pages: 337
description:  From the acclaimed author of Spoonbenders comes the gripping tale of a family's mysterious religion and the daughter who turns her back on their god.In 1933 nine-year-old Stella is left in the care of her grandmother Motty in the backwoods of Tennessee. These remote hills of the Smoky Mountains are home to dangerous secrets and soon after she arrives Stella wanders into a dark cavern where she encounters the family's personal god an entity known as the Ghostdaddy.Years later after a tragic incident that caused her to flee Stella--now a professional bootlegger--returns for Motty's funeral and to check on the mysterious ten-year-old girl named Sunny that Motty adopted. Sunny appears innocent enough but she is more powerful than Stella could imagine--and she's a direct link to Stella's buried past and her family's destructive faith.Haunting and wholly engrossing summoning mesmerizing voices and giving shape to the dark Revelator is a southern gothic tale for the ages.
language: English
title: Revelator
publisher: Knopf