The Salvation Of Maggie Rider

In the small southern pocket of a north Florida community called Nokofta, Cauthen’s men and women move through lives no longer possible since the 1950s. At home, in church or at school, along paths and roads, in woods and fields, young Maggie Rider searches for an understanding of her hometown and her own place within it. She takes stock, too, of her mysterious uncle, the brokenhearted loner Gus whose secret existence in a converted hen house is a mystery she has dedicated herself to solving. In these layered stories we glimpse an early 20th century Florida that no longer exists and characters—in The Salvation of Maggie Rider, “Maudie May,” and “Eva’s Barn” united in their timeless and compelling need to make sense of what has gone before.