Title: Prayers and lies
Description: When seven-year-old Bethany first meets six-year-old cousin Reana Mae during a yearly family trip to West Virginia's Coal River Valley, it's the beginning of a kinship of misfits that saves both from a bone-deep loneliness. But as Bethany grows older, secrets in the small, close-knit community start coming to light with devastating effect.
Subjects: Families, Fiction, Secrets, Cousins, Coming of age, Poverty, Secrecy, Friendship, Fiction, family life, general, West virginia, fiction
Places: Coal River Watershed (W. Va.)