: A Novel
Alison Stine
December 3, 2024
Hardcover with dust jacket
| 320 pages
Young Adult Fiction / Family / Multigenerational / Disabilities & Special Needs / Romance / Contemporary
In Alison Stine's haunting young adult debut, a partially deaf teenager must find community and hope amidst the foreboding climate change in the Colorado Bloodless Valley.
After her father has a premonition, Thea, her parents, and her little sister move to the Bloodless Valley of southern Colorado, hoping to make a fresh start. On their remote farm, they will “unschool”: take nature hikes, help with the animals, and learn outside. But soon her parents don’t have time to teach the girls, and forbid Thea and her sister from going to the library, not wanting to “poison” them with the internet or books. Thea learns the reason her parents could afford to buy land—sight unseen—is because nothing will grow without a fight.
