Title: As hot as it was you ought to thank me
Description: In the summer after her father's abandonment, thirteen-year-old Berry witnesses her mother's pursuit of the local preacher and the arrival of a handsome convict who helps repair hurricane-damaged roads in her conservative Florida hometown. By the author of Crossing Blood.
Subjects: Prisoners, Fatherless families, Teenage girls, Hurricanes, Fiction, Florida, fiction, Fiction, sagas
Places: Florida