Dramatic Comedy / 3fFourteen year old Laney arrives in Oxford Mississippi with a twisted back a mother in crisis and a burning desire to be writer. When she befriends Maribel Purdy a fervent believer in the power of Jesus Christ to save her from the humiliations of high school Laney embarks on a hilarious spiritual and sexual journey that challenges her mother's secular worldview and threatens to tear their fragile relationship apart."The work of a big accomplished writer's voice...a gem