Blooms, Ashley creator author. text Psychological fiction. Domestic fiction. ilu 2020 monographic eng

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345 pages ; 21 cm. "In her rural Appalachian holler, ten-year-old Misty's closest friends are the crawdads. Misty can speak to them, to the birds, to the creek, to everything outside, and she understands how they think. She knows that if she could just speak to her parents in the same way, she could stop all the fighting. But it's too hard. When her only friend William takes their friendship too far, Misty doesn't know how to get help. This is the story of one tough-as-nails girl whose choices are few but whose imagination is boundless, as her manner of coping with trauma becomes an adventure for everyone in her holler."--Provided by publisher. Ashley Blooms. Psychic trauma Fiction Healing Fiction Sex crimes Fiction Self-actualization (Psychology) Fiction Appalachian Region Fiction PS3602.L667 E94 2020 813/.6 9781728216218 1728216214 2019042346 DLC 191001 20230606115051.0 1122687343 eng