Firefly Cloak
Firefly Cloak is the powerfully vivid coming-of-age story of Tessa Lee, who, after being abandoned by her mother, sets off on a risky journey to discover what she has lost.
When eight-year-old Tessa Lee and her brother, Travis, are abandoned in a campground by their desperate mother and her boyfriend of the moment, they are left with only two things: a phone number written in Magic Marker on Travis’s back and their mother’s favorite housecoat, which she leaves wrapped around her sleeping children. This housecoat, painted with tiny fireflies, becomes totemic for Tessa Lee, providing a connection to her past and to the beautiful mother she lost.
Seven years later, when word arrives that her mother has been spotted working at a tourist trap on a seaside boardwalk not far from where Tessa Lee lives, she sets off on a dangerous journey to try to recover what has been taken from her.
Steeped in the rich Southern atmosphere for which Sheri Reynolds has long been hailed, Firefly Cloak is a vivid coming-of-age novel of family, loss, and redemption.
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Book details
- Author
- Sheri Reynolds
- Imprint
- Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Pages
- 300
- Formats
- Paperback, Hardcover
- Subjects
- Fiction › Women
- Topics
- coming of age · mother-daughter relationships · family abandonment · Southern United States · loss and grief · women's fiction · redemption
- ISBN-13
- 9781618580320 (Paperback)9781630263362 (Hardcover)
About the author
SHERI REYNOLDS is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of multiple novels, including The Tender Grave, The Homespun Wisdom of Myrtle T. Cribb and The Sweet In-Between.
Reynolds’s novel The Rapture of Canaan was an Oprah Book Club selection. Her play Orabelle’s Wheelbarrow won the Women Playwrights' Initiative competition in 2005. She holds degrees from Davidson College and Virginia Commonwealth University.
Reynolds teaches creative writing and literature at Wofford College in Spartanburg, SC, where she serves as the John C. Cobb Endowed Chair of Humanities.