If Amelia is to live, she has to change. Can she, though, in a place where people don't know how to look after themselves, and so wouldn't know how to look after one another?
In the small town of Tiptoe Floorboard, the Doe clan, a close-knit family of criminals and victims, has the run of the place, until one violent act leads to a day that just may change everything. By the author of the Man Booker Prize-winning Milkman.