When the body of itinerant preacher and brutal drunk, Bo Bodine, is found buried in a shallow grave in the local bog, two of his five home-schooled kids are the natural suspects. Local teens want to know if it was the freak brother or the fruit who did it. But it is seventeen-year-old Junie who falls under the punitive gaze of the sheriff and the county prosecutor. Motherless and now fatherless, the Bodine kids will "go to the county" if Junie can't prove her innocence but Junie's recollection of the night in question includes only a pipe-smoking old woman, a dog named Scout and a flock of...