Joel is such a sympathetic character that I spent the whole book dreading that something bad would happen to him. To make things complicated, he becomes friendly with Missy’s nephew, Burke. The story centers around Joel, Avery’s youngest son and the only Barker to attend school. Very bad things start happening, and it’s unclear as to who’s responsible. Unfortunately for everyone, Missy Campbell, the religious leader of the community, has gotten it into her head that the sineater has consumed too much sin and gone mad. The rest of the community believe that just looking at the sineater would be enough to kill a person. The service he offers is extremely important to this community, but it also renders him and his family as outcasts. He lives just outside of Beacon Cove, a small, extremely religious community in the mountains of Virginia. Carroll & Graf – 1994 (Originally published 1992)Īvery Barker is a sineater, a man who ritually cleanses dead bodies of sin by eating a meal off their chest.
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