Godshot Chelsea Bieker This "fiercely written and endlessly readable" novel of a teenage girl in thrall to a magnetic—and terrifying—preacher who promises to save her dying town is "a godsend" (Entertainment Weekly).Drought has settled on the town of Peaches, California. · Godshot follows Lacey May, a fourteen-year-old girl growing up in Peaches, California as she navigates her identity through the lenses of feminism, religion, motherhood, and knowledge. Bieker executes a stark and much-needed portrayal of the extent . "Godshot, from debut author Chelsea Bieker, is an unnerving tour de force. Exploring the gritty, confounding ways innocence—especially girlhood-clash with spirituality, family, love, and gender, the story follows year-old Lacey, who lives in a Californian town paralyzed by drought."/5().
Godshot by Chelsea Bieker has an overall rating of Positive based on 16 book reviews. 'Godshot' author Chelsea Bieker on mothers, daughters, resilience, and cults Bieker's powerful debut novel is the perfect quarantine read. By Mary Sollosi Ap at PM EDT. Godshot. by Chelsea Bieker. At just 14 years old, Lacey May Herd is godshot pregnant for God. In her world, the small California town of Peaches, God is Pastor Vern, a cape-wearing preacher who, having once delivered a miracle of rain, is on the hook for another such miracle. Birthing Day, when the handful of pregnant teen girls are meant.
Chelsea Bieker is the author of the novel GODSHOT which is a finalist for both the Oregon and California Book Award, longlisted for The Center For Fiction’s First Novel Prize, and named a Barnes and Noble Pick of the Month. Her story collection, HEARTBROKE, will be published in April Her writi. Chelsea Bieker’s Godshot is a dynamite of a debut novel about the true grit of girlhood under the long arm of religion and patriarchy. The story dawns in the drought-stricken town of Peaches, California, "Whatever's happened to you can either make you beautiful, or it will ruin you forever. GODSHOT. by Chelsea Bieker ‧ RELEASE DATE: April 1, A young teen ensnared in a cult becomes obsessed with finding her exiled mother. Peaches is a small town near Fresno, in California’s Central Valley. Once the raisin capital of the world, now Peaches is drought-ridden, with empty canals and residents in perpetual thirst.
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