"After fifteen years of growing up in the Ozark hills...high-school freshman Boady Sanden is beyond ready to move on...Then Thomas Elgin moves in across the road, and Boady's life begins to twist and turn...Secrets hidden in plain sight begin to unfold...But the biggest secret of all is the disappearance of Lida Poe, the African-American woman who keeps the books at the local plastics factory...Although Boady has never met the missing woman, he discovers that the threads of her life are woven into the deepest fabric of his world"--
