Stones from the River

From the acclaimed author of The Worst Thing I've Done and Children and Fire , a stunning story about ordinary people living in extraordinary times—“epic, daring, magnificent, the product of a defining and mesmerizing vision” ( Los Angeles Times ). Trudi Montag is a Zwerg —a dwarf—short, undesirable, different, the voice of anyone who has ever tried to fit in. Eventually she learns that being different is a secret that all humans share—from her mother who flees into madness, to her friend Georg