内容简介：
Fifteen-year-old Amy Blackwell leads a lonely life thatas hard to endure. Itas 1917 in rural Arkansas, and sheas being raised by her strict grandfather, a Bible-thumping preacher and his sinister wife whom town folks call anuts.a Their pious demands doom her to guilt-ridden failure and athou shalta hypocrisy, and a dark family secret rules their home. Amy struggles to keep up a smiling facade. When all efforts to please her grandparents fall short, she plots to run away with her sister. Instead, her teenage passion prevails and she marries at sixteen to leave home. Amyas journey is exciting at first, but turns sobering with a string of calamitiesaincluding death and disease. Even worse, now sheas trapped by the high expectations of two families. When her grandmotheras dark secret unravels, Amy is devastated but must find the strength to go on. With determination that most adults couldnat muster, she brings love and hope back into her life.