Dogwood
Dogwood by Lindsay Parnell, published by Linen Press in 2015, is a literary fiction novel that explores the complexities of redemption and the impact of past choices. The story follows 19-year-old Harper Haley as she returns to her hometown after being released from prison on probation. Set against a backdrop of a dogwood-scented landscape, the narrative delves into Harper’s struggles with guilt and her journey toward rehabilitation.
Readers will encounter the intense and obsessive sisterhood between Harper and her childhood friends, Collier and Caro, as they navigate a world filled with sex, drugs, and emotional turmoil. The novel captures the unraveling of their bond as Harper confronts her past and the violent cycles that threaten her future. With 206 pages, this edition presents a poignant exploration of identity and the weight of unspoken truths.
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“You’d think she was an angel if she wasn’t always flying so close to hell.”
Released from prison on probation, 19-year-old Harper Haley returns to the brutal, sweaty, dogwood scented landscape of her youth. Chronicling her homecoming and struggle for rehabilitation, this is the story of one girl’s sin, guilt and resurrection.
At the heart of the novel is the dangerous, obsessive sisterhood between Harper and her childhood friends Collier, a seductively destructive debutante, and Caro, a jaded dreamer yearning for escape. As Harper backslides into a violent cycle of sex, drugs and abuse,
the sisterhood at the core of her identity, and of the story, begins to unravel.
Climaxing in the confession of the act that irreversibly altered her life and those closest to her, Dogwood is Harper’s story, the one she can’t forget and the one she cannot speak.
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