by Tawni Waters
Author photograph © Eric Auxier
TAWNI WATERS is an award-winning writer and poet, and her work was featured in The Best Travel Writing of 2010. She teaches creative writing in Phoenix, Arizona. This is her first novel. Friend Tawni at facebook.com/tawni.waters.
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Simon & Schuster, New York
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This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
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First Simon Pulse hardcover edition September 2014
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The text of this book was set in Berling.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Waters, Tawni.
Beauty of the broken / by Tawni Waters.—First Simon Pulse hardcover edition.
pages cm
Summary: As if her parents’ heavy drinking and her father’s abuse—which nearly killed her half-brother, Iggy—were not enough, fifteen-year-old Mara is caught kissing her girlfriend, Xylia, by the preacher’s son and becomes terrified that her own life is at risk.
ISBN 978-1-4814-0709-0 (hc)
[1. Family problems—Fiction. 2. Brothers and sisters—Fiction. 3. Child abuse—Fiction. 4. Alcoholism—Fiction. 5. Lesbians—Fiction. 6. Christian life—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.W264359Be 2014
[Fic]—dc23
2014006632
ISBN 978-1-4814-0710-6 (eBook)
Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Acknowledgments
About Tawni Waters
