This surreal novel tells a familiar story of grief in a unique way through an irresistible chorus of female voices-"haunting and healing in equal measure." In a small lakeside town where summer people flock to vacation, mothers bake their secrets into moon pies they feed to a silent blue girl. Their daughters have secrets too-that they can't sleep, that they might sleep with a neighbor boy, that they know more than they let on. But when the daughters...

Ava was born with wings. No one called them that until she was two years old. She hides her wings under a special device her father made for her. She never takes off her backpack at school. No one knows her secret, not even her best friend Theo, who was born with two different-colored eyes. The doctor told Ava that she can choose to have the wings removed when she turns sixteen. The big day arrives, and she can't decide what to do. Without her wings, Ava...