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Overview:

    Bestselling and award-winning author Andrew Joseph White returns with a queer Appalachian thriller, that pulls no punches, for teens who see the failures in our world and are pushing for radical change.A gut-wrenching story following a trans autistic teen who survives an attempted murder, only to be drawn into the generational struggle between the rural poor and those who exploit them.On the night Miles Abernathy?sixteen-year-old socialist and proud West Virginian?comes out as trans to his parents, he sneaks off to a party, carrying evidence that may finally turn the tide of the blood feud plaguing Twist Creek: Photos that prove the county?s Sheriff Davies was responsible for the so-called ?accident? that injured his dad, killed others, and crushed their grassroots efforts to unseat him.The feud began a hundred years ago when Miles?s great-great-grandfather, Saint Abernathy, incited a miners? rebellion that ended with a public execution at the hands of law enforcement. Now, Miles