Sacred and Profane: Debut Novelist Chelsea Bieker on “Godshot”

Bay Area Book Festival Podcast

English - August 11, 2020 11:00 - 59 minutes - 41 MB - ★★★★★ - 12 ratings
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We’re thrilled to welcome novelist Chelsea Bieker in conversation with Brooke Warner. Bieker’s literary debut Godshot is a hymn to the salvation found in hard-won personal rebirth. Stricken with drought, the community of Peaches, California clings to a cult leader for salvation, and 14-year-old Lacey is left to reap a revelatory harvest of her own. Godshot has won Bieker comparisons to Margaret Atwood and Emma Cline. The beauty lies in Lacey’s incomparable voice, who you’ll miss after turning the last page.