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Set during the swampy summer in 1982 this stunning debut novel follows eleven-year-old Sunshine Turner and her troubled father Billy as the secrets of their family s past swirl around them in the one-road town of Fingertip Louisiana. During a hot summer of June moods grubworms and dark storms Sunshine discovers stones in her chest - and learns the dangers her coming-of-age will bring about in the yellow house she shares with her father. Without the vocabulary to comprehend Billy s actions or her own changing body Sunshine turns to an apocryphal story passed down from her grandmother: in the dark waters of the Black Bayou lives a crocodile with an insatiable appetite and a woman with a mysterious healing gift. As Sunshine s summer unspools she turns to the one person who will need no explanation of the family secrets she carries--the crocodile bride. The Crocodile Bride is at once a heartbreakingly tender coming-of-age tale and a lyrical haunting reflection on generational trauma. Remin