Abstract
FINALIST: 2011 Midwest Book Awards Awesome Indies Seal of Approval Dyslexic Antigone Brown has trouble reading road signs, keeps a stone in her pocket to help her remember right from left and despairs of ever being a good mother to her unborn child. She runs a deer farm and vegetarian café in Mercy, North Carolina, where Irene Crump and the Mercy Study Club have started removing "undesirable" books from the school's collection. This is a fight Antigone doesn't want to get involved in, battling for the very things that have made her life a misery — books. When Antigone starts her own library to help the town's children, she sets in motion a series of events destined to change Mercy forever.