"S. . .s. . .someday I w. . .w. . .will die and leave you alone.” “Why will you die?” “B. .
.because I'm old and you're y. . .y. . .young.” “You're silly! Mr. Jones, why do you
cry sometimes? Like now. There's no reason for you to have tears, yet you have ..."
"When ten-year old Addie Myers is abandoned on her Uncles' doorstep by the wards of an over-crowded orphanage, the townspeople of Suicide, Oklahoma agree that the girl could very well 'grow up wild.' Forbidden to go to school or Church, she spends her days roaming the fields of her uncles' farm, or fetching him whiskey from the bootleggers place."
"In a backwater hollow in 1940as Kentucky, a stranger came to town. Was he a megalomaniac or a messenger of God a] and what would become of the young woman, Jolene Mosley, who questioned his religious dogma, harsh rules and even harsher judgements? Dare to venture into a community turned upside down by twisted scripture and venomous prophecy."