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“Flannery O’Connor once said that sooner or later she’d have to write about the religious consciousness without a religion. With this novel, Tupelo Hassman picks up and runs where O’Connor left off, and I am grateful to her for writing fiction that is mystical and reckless and hopefully irreverent, and that has at least (at least!) five lines of poetry on every page. This is very much the Real Thing.”

—Carlene Bauer, Not That Kind of Girl and Frances and Bernard

"Tupelo Hassman has written a sacrament for girls growing up as we did, a liturgy for their irreverent hilarious resilient souls, a stylistically sly and beautiful book, a wild ride of a novel set in a California everyone should know."

—Susan Straight, Take One Candle Light a Room, A Million Nightingales, Highwire Moon, and Between Heaven and Here

“Open your hearts because you are going to fall in love with Helen Dedleder. I know I did. She is brilliant, incisive, tender, and irreverent, just like the prose used to describe her.”

—Zulema Renee Summerfield, Every Other Weekend

“This is a story to read when you are starving to connect, a book to fall into with your whole heart, to cry and laugh, and say hell yeah. I can't wait for readers to meet Helen, a cool kid who pushes right through the page in every form her words take, from letters to God to posters on light poles, irresistibly funny, entirely lovable. When a young person's faith is shattered by grief, mending the soul is delicate work. Tupelo Hassman has mastered this fragile form, and the sharp fragments of Helen's story come together like shards, reforming her into a glittering new shape in a story that is authentic in every way. This novel will steal your heart. If you think you're too cynical to cry over a girl's first love, here is the story to blow up your apathy.”

—Lydia Netzer, Shine Shine Shine, How to Tell Toledo from the Night Sky, and Everybody’s Baby

"This book is a revelation. And it’s so very intoxicating to read. It got me drunker on its language’s wild, thorny beauty and the paper flowers of its love than even the Dickheads could get by chugging beers hanging upside-down, or needling prophecies into one another’s skins. I’m more than a little in love with Gods with a Little g, and with Helen, Dickhead Queen, Rosary Breakout Allstar, daughter, heroine, best friend. I wish she were my best friend. Hassman is a genius, and here she has written yet another book of my dreams: wildly inventive, brackishly funny, and, at times, devastating. But always absolutely true, and huge-hearted in its telling. Once I began reading it, I truly couldn’t stop. It’s guileless and gorgeous. It’s one of the loveliest things I’ve ever read. And it only changed the way I think about life, fiction, and what’s possible. Only all that.

—Alena Graedon, The Word Exchange