From the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The
Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, a haunting story set deep in moonshine
country, where love, loss, redemption and atonement intersect in the
dark secrets surrounding a 1952 prom night when two teens go missing in
rural Kentucky.
A SIBA Okra Pick
A Southern Book Prize Finalist
Glass Ferry, Kentucky, is bourbon country. Whiskey has been a way of
life for generations, enabling families to provide and survive even in
the darkest times. Flannery Butler's daddy, Beauregard "Honey Bee"
Butler, was known for making some of the best whiskey in the state. And
Flannery is the only person Honey Bee ever entrusted with his recipes
before he passed on, swearing her to secrecy as he did so.
But Flannery is harboring other secrets too, about her twin sister
Patsy, older by eight minutes and pretty in a way Flannery knows she'll
never be. Then comes the prom night when Patsy--wearing a yellow chiffon
dress and the family pearls--disappears along with her date. Every
succeeding year on the twins' birthday, Flannery's mother bakes a
strawberry cake, convinced that this is the day Patsy will finally come
home. But it will be two tumultuous decades until the muddy river yields
a clue about what happened that night, compelling Flannery to confront
the truth about her sleepy town, her family's past, and the choices she
and those closest to her have made in the name of love and
retribution...
