Every summer, fifteen-year-old Miriam Horton and her family pack themselves tight into their old minivan and travel through small Southern towns for revival season: the time when Miriam's father holds massive healing services for people desperate to be cured of ailments and disease. After a service that tests Reverend Horton's healing powers like never before, Miriam witnesses a shocking act of violence that shakes her belief in everything she's known to be true. When the Hortons return home, Miriam's confusion only grows as she discovers she might have the ability to heal-even though her father and the church have always made it clear that such power is denied to women. Over the course of the next year, Miriam must decide between her religion, her family, and her newfound power that might be able to save others but, if discovered by Miriam's father, could destroy her. A story of spiritual awakening and disillusionment in a Southern, Black, evangelical community, West's transporting novel explores what it means to be a person of faith even after our belief systems collapse around us.

ISBN: 9781982133306