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When eight-year-old Tessa Lee and her brother, Travis, are abandoned in a campground by their desperate mother and her boyfriend of the moment, they are left with only two things: a phone number written in Magic Marker on Travis's back and their mother's favorite housecoat, which she leaves wrapped around her sleeping children. This housecoat, painted with tiny fireflies, becomes totemic for Tessa Lee, providing a connection to her past and to the beautiful mother she lost. Seven years later, when word arrives that her mother has been spotted working at a tourist trap on a seaside boardwalk not far from where Tessa Lee lives, she sets off on a dangerous journey to try to recover what has been taken from her. Steeped in the rich Southern atmosphere for which Sheri Reynolds has long been hailed, Firefly Cloak is a vivid coming-of-age novel of family, loss, and redemption. Also available as a Random House Large Print edition and as an eBook From the Hardcover edition.

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Praise for Sheri Reynolds <br> Firefly Cloak <br> Reynolds' newest novel delivers more of the rich southern atmosphere and coming-of-age drama that made The Rapture of Canaan (1995) an Oprah Book Club selection and bestseller. -- Booklist (starred review) <br> Reynolds is the newest and most exciting voice to emerge in contemporary Southern fiction. -- San Fransisco Bay Guardian <br> A Gracious Plenty <br> Reynolds is a wonderful storyteller and master of pastoral imagery. -- New York Times Book Review <br> Mesmerizing . . . Reynolds's earthly insights make for a redemptive finale-- but not before some satisfying storms of retribution. -- Entertainment Weekly <br> An imaginative tour de force. . . . Pushing beyond the boundaries of her earlier work, Ms. Reynolds has created a life-affirming novel that gathers the joy and pain of living into a celebration of what it means to be human. -- Richmond Times-Dispatch <br> The Rapture of Canaan <br> Ms. Reynolds's poetic gifts are uncommonly powerful. In The Rapture of Canaan, she tells a truly rapturous love story and presents two unforgettable characters: the teenage heroine and her skeptical but stalwart grandmother, from whom she learns about the acceptance of loss, the pragmatism that must underlie any abiding love, and the place in every heart where God resides, waiting to reveal himself. -- New York Times <p> From the Hardcover edition.

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