Description:
Miami law prohibits sex offenders
from living within 2,500 feet of a school or daycare. Halfway houses, hotels and homeless shelters
will not accept them.
Which leaves them with only one
place to go: under Julia.
In this devastating new novel,
Lauren Scharhag explores questions of guilt and redemption, of dignity and
exile. Whether they were convicted of
relatively minor crimes such as having sex with an underage girlfriend, or true
predators nursing unspeakable desires, society considers them the worst of the
worst, less than human.
In their struggle to survive, they
form a community, working together with surprising wit and tenacity. With the help of caseworkers, doctors, clergy
and family, they can overcome the worst of themselves.
Together, they discover that hope is
still possible, and while they can’t undo the damage they’ve done in the past,
they can move forward—into absolution.
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