Indeed, is a cult-like religion really that different than the sex industry? They're both run by awful men who are addicted to their own fantasy of themselves and have mostly never drawn an honest breath in their lives. One of the main messages of the novel, which rings so incredibly true in this day and age, is how mediocre white men use whatever means necessary - religion, drugs and booze, promises of fame - to try to control women and keep them subservient. But so Lacey May is left to live with her grandmother, and is stuck in the thrall of the two-bit preacher, Vern. Louise, who has ambitions of stardom, abandons her daughter and takes up with a man who tells her he'll make her famous - you know, the tale as old as time. Taking place in a suburb of Fresno in California's drought-addled Central Valley in (I think?) about 2011, the story is about 14-year-old Lacey May, her mother Louise, and the bad-man preacher Vern who is hell bent on bringing rain, but only succeeds in destroying everyone's lives. And whoa boy, is Godshot, by Chelsea Bieker, a GOOD cult novel.
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