Ashes, a Fable

In a small Pennsylvanian city in the 1970's lives a teenager, Faith, who finds herself thrust into a Cinderella story, Maddeningly for Faith, she is cast as one of the ugly stepsisters. Her little waif of a stepsister, Elsie, whom she bullied unrelentingly, suddenly becomes a beloved figure in their community, and Faith must negotiate her mother's rage, her sister's madness, and her own deep-seated jealousy of Elsie, who turns out to be not only beautiful, but an accomplished artist. This is a riveting, suspenseful story of a flawed young woman who strives to find her own artistic identity and to find peace with her role as the town pariah.