Drought has settled on the town of Peaches, California - where fourteen-year-old Lacey May and her alcoholic mother live. In their desperation, residents have turned to a cult leader named Pastor Vern for guidance. But then her life explodes in a single unimaginable act of abandonment: her mother, exiled from the community for her sins, leaves Lacey and runs off with a man she barely knows. Lacey May decides she must go on a quest to find her mother no matter what it takes. With her only guidance coming from the romance novels she reads and the unlikely companionship of the women who knew her mother, she must find her own way through unthinkable circumstances.
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