Five-year-old Daisy Gonzalez's father is always waiting for her at the bus stop. But today, he isn't. As the bus driver, Fikus, lowers her wheelchair to the ground and looks around, chaos erupts behind him as one child has an accident...

An Edgar Award Nominee for Best First Novel"Dark and dangerous and strange and wonderful...Kennedy writes with the gritty poetry of Daniel Woodrell and misfit sensibility of Flannery O'Connor." -Benjamin PercyDeborah Kennedy tells the...