The Most Important Thing

In Maura Pennington's debut novel, Dolores Martin-Woods, called Dee, moves to the small town of Revelation, Utah to escape the pressures of her parents and delay her inevitable return to the university she left and the rest of healthy, functioning society. In Revelation, she meets Maisy, a sixteen-year-old misfit and self-formed philosopher. Their connection is a cure for the loneliness and isolation they both feel. But can it last forever?