Balm Library Edition Author:Dolen Perkins-Valdez Born with magical hands, Madge has the power to discern others' suffering, but she cannot heal her own damaged heart.Sadie can commune with the dead, but until she makes peace with her father, she cannot fully engage her gift.Searching for his missing family, Hemp arrives in a northern city that shimmers with possibility.In the bitter aftermath ... more »of a terrible, bloody war, as a divided nation tries to come together once again, Madge, Sadie, and Hemp will be caught up in a desperate, unexpected battle for survival in a community desperate to lay the pain of the past to rest.« less