Summer of the Cicadas Format:Paperback While grappling with their identity

While grappling with their identity and sexuality

former CIA senior intelligence officer and author of Clarity in Crisis: Leadership Lessons from the CIA

protector of undocumented immigrants and abandoned children

The Very Marrow of Our Bones explores the isolated landscapes and thorny attachments bred by childhood loss and buried secrets

Rebekah Herrick

Summer of the Cicadas Format:Paperback While grappling with their identitySummer of the Cicadas is about a West Virginian town where a brood of Magicicadas emerges for the first time in seventeen years. The cicadas damage crops and trees, and swarm locals. Jessica, a former cop whose entire family was killed in a car crash two years earlier, is deputized during the crisis. Throughout the book, Jessica must deal with her feelings for her sister's best friend, Natasha, who is a town council member. After Fish and Wildlife