{"product_id":"miracle-girls-book-mb-caschetta-9781938126154","title":"Miracle Girls","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhen Cee-Cee closes her eyes, she can suddenly see all the missing girls in the Mohawk Valley. It's part of the message: they are buried in wheat fields and stashed behind train tracks, or sprawled at the bottom of the canal.\u003c\/i\u003e Could have been you\u003ci\u003e, one dead girl says, smart-mouthed.\u003c\/i\u003e But instead it was me  \u003ci\u003eA live one tied up somewhere in a basement cocks her head: \u003c\/i\u003e But, guess what--you're next \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCee-Cee tries to focus, but a terrible headache rises from the back of her neck, as if someone has struck her there. She should take her medicine, but Mrs. Patrick took away the pink bottles. In the thicket overhead, the branches are picked clean as bones, no longer swaying. Now she steps back until her heels butt up against the fat oak tree. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn the woods, everything is silent. Even the trees stand still.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt's 1973 in the Mohawk Valley, and children are disappearing. Cee-Cee Bianco is visited by the Virgin Mary, but her brothers see a much darker vision. When the youngest Bianco falls into a coma after witnessing a brutal crime in the woods and Cee-Cee performs a miracle, she is guarded by war-protesting Sisters whose order is not the benign sanctuary it seems.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMB Caschetta\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eLucy on the West Coast\u003c\/i\u003e (Alyson), which \u003ci\u003eMs. Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e called a spectacular collection. Her essays have appeared in the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eChronicle of Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eBody \u0026amp; Soul\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in Massachusetts.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50394144866577,"sku":"CIN1938126157G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50403157016849,"sku":"CIN1938126157A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51052695879953,"sku":"NIN9781938126154","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1938126157.jpg?v=1750835804","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/miracle-girls-book-mb-caschetta-9781938126154","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}