Tomato Girl

A powerful and deeply emotional debut novel in the classic Southern tradition of Carson McCullers and Kaye Gibbons. For eleven-year-old Ellie Sanders, her father has always been the rock that she could cling to when her mother’s emotional troubles became too frightening. But when he comes under the thrall of the pretty teenager who raises vegetables and tomatoes for sale at the general store that Sanders runs, Ellie sees her security slowly slipping away, as now she must be witness and warden to her mother’s gradual slide into madness. Told from Ellie’s point of view, Tomato Girl marks the debut of an exciting new author with a fresh and engaging voice.