He defies Marko, keeping him away from Julie’s bedside and refusing to fall prey to his threats of violence. Jamal, the youngest son in a family of Iraqi refugees living in Julie’s small town, is one of his prime targets.
Marko, her attacker, tries to cover his tracks, menacing those who know what happened in the desert that night. Lying unconscious in her hospital bed, Julie hovers between life and death as she travels in a seductive parallel universe inspired by remarkable cave paintings left behind by prehistoric humans. Running away in fear, she takes a dangerous fall down the shaft of a vast underground cave, and it takes two days for her to be rescued. The novel toys with perspective-women shape-shifting into rocks or animals the same life-or-death scene played repeatedly, with myriad outcomes-in a kind of primal storytelling that crackles with dread and desire."- O Magazine When Julie skips school and sets off with her best friend and some local boys for a camping trip in the desert, she finds herself the target of unwanted, drug-fueled sexual attention. O Magazine’s Top 20 Books to Read - Summer 2017 "Best known for his acclaimed Haitian trilogy- All Souls' Rising, Master of the Crossroads and The Stone That the Builder Refused -Bell draws on his own experiences with voodoo possession to re-create his characters' descent into a sinister otherworld.
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