LEADER 00000cam a2200361Ii 4500 001 on1085890275 003 OCoLC 005 20190226022736.0 008 190215s2019 nyu 000 1 eng d 010 bl2018196933 020 9781496710062 020 1496710061 035 (OCoLC)1085890275 040 NjBwBT|beng|erda|cOQX|dOQX|dOCLCO|dORX|dQQ3|dPCX|dOCLCO 049 CKEA 050 14 PS3613.I474|bF67 2019 082 04 813/.6|223 100 1 Mikulencak, Mandy,|eauthor. 245 10 Forgiveness Road /|cMandy Mikulencak. 250 First Kensington hardcover edition. 264 1 New York, NY :|bJohn Scognamiglio Books/Kensington Books, |c2019. 300 325 pages ;|c22 cm 336 text|2rdacontent 337 unmediated|2rdamedia 338 volume|2rdacarrier 520 On a hot, humid July morning, sixteen-year-old Cissy Pickering calmly and deliberately shoots her father in the back. To their Mississippi community, the death of well- regarded attorney Richard Pickering is a fascinating scandal. To Cissy's distraught mother, Caroline, it's an unforgivable crime. But in Cissy's troubled mind, killing her father was the only way she knew to save the two people she loves most in the world. For years, Cissy has endured a devil's bargain with her father, hoping that he would leave her younger sisters alone if she kept his abuse to herself. When that thin trust shattered, she saw no other choice. Janelle Clayton, the family's matriarch, has kept her distance from her daughter, Caroline-a fact she now regrets-yet she hopes to do right by her granddaughter. Cissy has always been an unusual girl, given to compulsive counting and list-making, but Janelle believes her implicitly. When Cissy is remanded to the Greater Mississippi State Hospital, a caring psychiatrist tries to help, yet new revelations drive Cissy to retreat even further from reality. It will fall to Janelle, despite her own failing health, to become Cissy's advocate and rescuer. And over the course of an unlikely road trip, Janelle and Cissy will confront the truths they've hidden from the world and themselves, finding courage, deep- rooted resilience, and a bond tender and tough enough to transform them both. 650 0 Parricide|vFiction. 650 0 Abused teenagers|vFiction. 650 0 Grandparent and child|vFiction. 655 7 Historical fiction.|2lcgft 655 7 Historical fiction.|2gsafd 994 C0|bCKE
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