01802cam a2200217 4500 423316563 TxAuBib 20200612120000.0 200413s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781542007351 HRD 24.95 1542007356 HRD 24.95 TxAuBib Abrams, Melanie. Meadowlark [BOOK] : a novel / Melanie Abrams. New York, NY : Little A, 2020. 228 pages ; 22 cm. After growing up in an austere spiritual compound, two teenagers, Simrin and Arjun, escape and go their separate ways. Years later, Simrin receives an email from Arjun. As they reconnect, Simrin learns that he has become the charismatic leader of Meadowlark, a commune in the Nevada desert that allows children to discover their "gifts." In spite of their fractured relationship, Simrin, a photojournalist, agrees to visit Meadowlark to document its story. She arrives at the commune with her five-year-old daughter in tow and soon realizes there is something disturbing about Arjun's beliefs concerning children and their unusual abilities. When she discovers that the commune is in the midst of a criminal investigation, her unease grows deeper still. As tensions with police heighten, Arjun's wife begins to make plans of her own, fearing the exposure the investigation might bring for her and her children. Both mothers find themselves caught in a desperate situation, and as the conflict escalates, everyone involved must make painful--and potentially tragic--choices that could change their worlds forever. 20200612. Mother and child Fiction. Communal living Nevada Fiction.