Author: mandymikulencak

A “haunting and poignant” novel (Booklist): When 16-year-old Cissy kills her father after years of abuse, she and her grandmother take off on an unlikely road trip, grappling with the hard truths of their family and forming a tender, transformative bond.

In 1950s Louisiana, prison cook Ginny Polk prepares exquisite last meals for Greenmount State Penitentiary’s death row inmates… but a painful revelation about her father’s murderer soon changes everything. “A gorgeous novel that finds beauty in the most unlikely of places” (Susan Wiggs).