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From Booklist (starred review): "Berry Jackson's life is turned upside down one scorchingly hot summer when a tornado tears through Pinetta, her small Florida town, and her father, the local school principal, vanishes into the night. Is he dead? Has he run away with the young woman who has also vanished? And what will this mean to barely adolescent Berry, who has always defined herself as "the principal's daughter"? Small southern towns, vanishing husbands, and adolescent narrators are staples of Kincaid's earlier fiction, and once again her great strength is the creation of a memorably regional, wryly funny, and naturally artful first-person voice. Like seemingly everyone else in Pinetta--where the heart is definitely not a lonely hunter--Berry looks to love for answers, unwisely becoming infatuated with a young prisoner who has been brought to town on a chain gang in the wake of the storm. Love's lessons are sometimes painful ones, but Berry--a terrific character--discovers she can cope when others can't. Kincaid brings a wonderfully engaging authorial sensibility to her story, while her obvious affection for her characters--and theirs for each other--is downright irresistible."