Second Nature

Available from Nook & Cranny Books when we last checked. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

From the award-winning author of Natural Beauty comes a fierce, beautiful novel of survival, faith, and love—following a young boy who grows up in a matriarchal cult. Bodie is a shy, sweet, curious boy who grows up in the Veil, raised by his many mothers and devoted to his God, a female version of Christ. He spends his days playing in the forest and fulfilling his various responsibilities, which include educating the younger children in the history of their world. Increasingly, he begins to love