![]() ![]() But slowly "Peaches crept back to the dry," and Vern says he can't bring back the rain on his own anymore: “He needed our sacrifice now." Sacrifice, to Vern, means that each church member must take on abhorrent, secret “assignments,” each a “holy bargaining.” ![]() Seven years earlier, when he arrived in Peaches, he "had knelt in the dry burrs and thrown up his hands" just as the skies opened up. Parishioners believe Vern, because he proved it once. They pour that yearning into their worship at Gifts of the Spirit Church, where Pastor Vern promises that faith in God-and, more importantly, faith in Vern-can bring rain. Thirsty for salvation.īesieged by a drought that has turned their Central Valley town from the home of bountiful raisin farms to a dusty land of "hay-dead field,” the people of Peaches need to believe that the rains will return again. In Chelsea Bieker's debut novel Godshot (Catapult), the fictional town of Peaches, California, is thirsty. ![]()
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