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From the author of the acclaimed novel House of Cotton comes an electric, haunting new Southern noir following the residents of Better Tomorrow trailer park in the aftermath of a gruesome murder. When the body of hated landlord Joe Candle is found nailed to a cross in the middle of Better...

Magnolia Brown is nineteen years old, broke, and effectively an orphan. She feels stuck and haunted: by her overdrawn bank account, her predatory landlord, and the ghost of her late grandmother Mama Brown. One night, while working at her dead-end gas station job, a mysterious, slick stranger named Cotton walks in and offers to turn Magnolia’s luck around with a lucrative “modeling” job at his family’s funeral home. She accepts. But despite things looking up, Magnolia’s problems fatten along with her wallet.