"I love this book, and for it, I love Silas House.” — Dorothy Allison

In this stunning novel about judgment, courage, heartbreak, and change, House wrestles with the limits of belief and the infinite ways to love. With its wonderful writing and affecting tale of preacher Asher Sharp and his 9-year-old son Justin, Southernmost will have you turning the pages faster and faster.

Julia Alvarez left the Dominican Republic for the United States in 1960 at the age of ten. Her work as a novelist, poet, and essayist has garnered wide recognition, including the 2013 National Medal of Arts. Her books include How the García Girls Lost Their Accents, In the Time of the Butterflies—a National Endowment for the Arts Big Read Selection—Yo!, Something to Declare, In the Name of Salome, Saving theWorld, A Wedding in Haiti, and The Woman I Kept to Myself.