
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER: An "exquisitely wrought memoir" about how "love can flourish even in the harshest climates"--for readers of The Liar's Club and Running with Scissors (People). "One of the best memoirs in years" (Anne Lamott):...

Tells the story of a white girl who was sent from the Midwest to a Christian reform school in the Dominican Republic after she and her black adopted brother fought back against the racism and bullying that was directed toward them.

A New York Times bestseller: A memoir that "will break your heart and mend it again, but it won't stop haunting you" ( Entertainment Weekly ). An ALA Alex Award Winner Julia and her adopted brother, David, are sixteen years old. Julia is white. David is black. It is the mid-1980s...







All Julia Scheeres ever wanted was to have a normal happy family. But when her fanatical mother decides they should all move to rural Indiana Julia's life begins to unravel.