Peyton Marshall

Goodhouse Peyton Marshall

Publisher Marketing: A bighearted dystopian novel about the corrosive effects of fear and the redemptive power of love. At the end of the twenty-first century in a transformed America the families of convicted felons are tested for a set of genetic markers. Boys who test positive become compulsory wards of the state removed from their homes and raised on "Goodhouse" campuses, where they learn to reform their darkest thoughts and impulses. Goodhouse is a feral place part prison, part boarding school and now a radical religious group, the Holy Redeemer s Church of Purity, is intent on destroying each campus and purifying every child with fire. We see all this through the eyes of James, a transfer student who watched as the radicals set fire to his old Goodhouse and everyone he d ever known. In addition to adjusting to a new campus with new rules, James now has to contend with Bethany, a brilliant, medically fragile girl who wants to save him, and her father, the school's sinister director of medical studies. Soon, however, James realizes that the biggest threat might already be there, inside the fortified walls of Goodhouse itself. Partly based on the true story of the nineteenth-century Preston School of Industry and the boys who lived and died in its halls, "Goodhouse" explores questions of identity and free will and what it means to test the limits of human endurance." Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 07/01/2014 (EAN 9780374165628, Hardcover) Publishers Weekly 07/21/2014 (EAN 9780374165628, Hardcover) Library Journal 09/01/2014 pg. 100 (EAN 9780374165628, Hardcover) - *Starred Review Booklist 09/01/2014 pg. 44 (EAN 9780374165628, Hardcover) New York Times Book Review 10/26/2014 pg. 18 (EAN 9780374165628, Hardcover) Contributor Bio:  Marshall, Peyton Peyton Marshall is a graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop and the recipient of a Maytag Fellowship and the Richard Yates Award for short fiction. Her story Bunnymoon was published in Best New American Voices 2004. Her work has appeared in such magazines as Tin House, A Public Space, Blackbird, Etiqueta Negra, and FiveChapters. She lives in Portland, Oregon. Goodhouse is her first novel. Contributor Bio:  Damron, Will Will Damron is an audiobook narrator whose readings include Christian Cantrell s "Kingmaker" and Ben Lieberman s "Odd Jobs".