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Format:
Book (regular print)
Title:
Daredevils
ISBN:
9781101979891

9780993506208

9781101979907
Publication:
New York : Penguin Press, 2016.
Physical Description:
308 pages ; 24 cm
Summary:
It's 1974. Fifteen-year-old Loretta slips out of her bedroom to meet her "Gentile" boyfriend. This time, her strict Mormon parents catch her returning and soon she's married off to Dean Harder, a fundamentalist who already has a wife and a brood of kids, some not much younger than Loretta herself. Trapped in her role as a "sister wife," Loretta dreams of another, better future, of a world glimpsed in magazines and advertisements. Her chance comes when she meets Jason, Dean's teenage nephew, who worships Evel Knievel and longs to leave his small Idaho town - and the Mormon faith - behind. Shawn Vestal' exhilarating debut novel delivers a dizzying jolt of teenage freedom as they drive into the American night, seeking to recover Dean's cache of "Mormon gold." But someone Loretta left behind is on their trail...Both a riveting road novel and an unforgettable coming-of-age story, punctuated by the disembodied voice of Evel Knievel, Daredevils plunges full speed into the myths of the America West, sacred and profane. -- From dust jacket.
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