Two sisters sit in the backseat of a car, bound at the wrists by a strip of white cloth. Their mother, Amaranth, drives for days without pause, desperate to get away from her husband, Zachariah, who she fears will follow them to the ends of the earth. Her daughters, Amity and Sorrow, cannot comprehend why they're fleeing or fathom what exists outside their father's polygamous compound, where their mother was one of fifty wives held captive by Zachariah's charisma. When an exhausted Amaranth crashes their car on a dusty road in the Oklahoma Panhandle, her fractured family finds itself stranded and unable to summon help. Rescue arrives in the form of Bradley, a farmer familiar with loss and uncertainty.

Akron, large print