Listen closely. The forest is praying, but it is not praying for you. In a damp clearing at the edge of the world, a family begins its exile. At dawn, Thomasin plays peekaboo with the infant Samuel. Her hands part, the cooing stops, and the baby is gone, vanished into the silence of the trees.
Banished from their plantation, the family scrapes a life from thin soil as an unspoken fear settles ...
