Amity & sorrow - Peggy Riley

One father; two daughters: fifty wives:
They're waiting for Salvation. Pray it never comes.

In the wake of a suspicious fire, Amaranth gathers her barely-teenage daughters, Amity and Sorrow, and flees from the rural fundamentalist cult run by her husband. After four days on the run, Amaranth crashes the car, leaving the family stranded at a gas station, innocent and terrified.

Rescue comes in the unlikely form of a downtrodden farmer, who offers sanctuary. But while Amity blossoms in this new world, free from her father’s faithful tyranny, Sorrow will do anything to get back home. And Amaranth herself needs to know what happened to the other wives, the other children.

AMITY & SORROW is a novel about God, sex, and farming; an unforgettable journey into the horrors a true believer can inflict upon his family. It is the gripping story of these remarkable women, the beauty and suffering of their former lives and their heartbreaking, hopeful, doubtful future. It is the darkest novel about love and the Good Life you will ever read.