In one scene, Lacey spots global warming posters and asks her mother what they mean. Godshot is a worthy addition to this canon. The Girls, Gather The Daughters, and The Incendiaries are the latest examples of such books that highlight how fanatic leaders justify crimes against humanity and, specifically, women, under the garb of religious, moral, or philosophical gains. There has been a recent influx of feminist coming-of-age meets cult novels. Now the believers of Peaches are looking to Vern, who considers himself Christ reincarnated, to pull off another miracle and ravish their arid land with much-needed rain.Ĭhelsea Bieker does a stellar job of grounding the pre-apocalyptic premise of this story in the realistic, suburban setting of California’s Central Valley. Lacey May’s dotty grandmother Cherry became his ardent follower after apparently witnessing him summoning rain from the sky. Hordes of its residents have turned to religious cult leader Pastor Vern for salvation. Once a lush raisin capital and now a drought-stricken desert, this town is replete with people who are plagued by poverty and thirst. Lacey May is a 14 year old girl living with her alcoholic mother in the sweltering heat of Peaches, a town in California.
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