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Winner, 2014 Clay Reynolds Novella Prize California Book Awards silver medal for fiction, 2016 It’s 1981, and thirteen-year-old Roscoe McAdams and his brother and sister have always lived with their parents, Sebastian and Moonstar, in an isolated cabin high on a ridge in California’s northern Sierra, though often in spring when Moonstar can’t stand the snow anymore she takes them for a stay down below. They’ve mostly been home-schooled. Then, through a fluke that April, Moonstar becomes a substi