The Cure for Death by Lightning

What you need to know before your trail

Turtle Valley – the poor, isolated farming community in the shadow of the Second World War. The fifteenth summer of Beth Weeks’s life is full of strange happenings: a classmate is mauled to death; children go missing on the nearby reserve; an unseen predator pursues Beth.

She is surrounded by unusual characters, including Nora, the  half-Native girl whose friendship provides refuge. Then there’s the darkness within her own family: her domineering, shell-shocked father has fits of madness, and her mother frequently talks to the dead.

Beth, meanwhile, must wrestle with her newfound sexuality in a harsh world.