
What the Valley Knows
by Heather Christie
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Pub Date Jan 25 2018 | Archive Date Mar 30 2018
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Description
Millington Valley is a quintessential small Pennsylvania town: families go back generations. Football rules. Kids drink while adults look the other way. High school is a whirlwind of aspiration and rivalry, friendship and jealousy.
When smart and pretty Molly Hanover moves to town and attracts the attention of the football team’s hero, Wade Thornton—a nice guy with a bad drinking habit—longtime friendships are threatened and a popular cheerleader tries to turn the school against Molly.
The young couple’s future is shattered when Wade, drunk, wrecks his truck and Molly is thrown through the windshield. She wakes from a coma to find her beauty marred and her memory full of holes. As she struggles to heal, she becomes sure that something terrible happened before the accident. And there is somebody in the valley who doesn’t want her to remember.
Advance Praise
“A taut, compelling family tale.”
—Kirkus Reviews
“Heather Christie
proves that a good story is even better when the writing is fluid and smart and
deeply felt. In the turn of a page, a world is evoked: a small town in which a
new girl wonders how she will find friends and make a new life. It’s a rich
story, with memorable characters and the wrenching lesson that some things are
learned the hard way.”
-Sandra Scofield, National Book Award Finalist, author of The Last Draft: A Novelist’s Guide to Revision, and Swim: Stories of the Sixties.
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