Let's be honest here, I picked this up because I loved the cover. I mean wow, she's holding a tornado. But little did I know how accurate it was. Jane is an old woman living inside a teenage girl. She's exhausted of trying to hold together the tornado that is her mother. She's always tired, cover...
I must admit, I was pretty amazed that the author's first novel took on a free-thinking teen in a conservative, fundamentalist Christian church. But she did it in such an honest way ("Why won't the sky open up and God's voice speak to me, too?") that it felt real and accessible. And then, y'know,...