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It begins with Vern, a Black, Albino teen escaping from Cainland, the cult compound she’s raised in, and giving birth (to twins!) alone in the woods. A refuge for Black American activists in the 1950s, Cainland became a religious stronghold controlled by Reverend Sherman, Vern’s much older husband.
Vern begins to question the anti-queer propaganda, the oppression of girls and women and unearths treachery beneath the compound’s revolutionary surface. Plus her body is changing, growing stronger, monstrous, becoming something altogether new. Hauntings—full-scale hallucinations, or so she thinks—chip away at her sanity and sense of self. Vern is all fight, but…
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