This stunning debut novel by Janna Brooke Wallack is about two siblings who grow up in 1980s Miami Beach, living off the land as they navigate the landscape created by their charismatic cult leader father.

Janna Brooke Wallack’s short stories have appeared in literary publications such as Hobart, Upstreet, and American Literary Review. Her short story “Campaigning” was a finalist for the Lascaux Prize in Short Fiction. Naked Girl’s prologue, “Five Pictures,” was a finalist for Glimmer Train Press’s Short Story Award for New Writers, and her story “Cat and Rose” received a Pushcart nomination by The MacGuffin. She grew up in Miami Beach in the 1970s and ’80s, a landscape and childhood that inspired her debut novel. She now resides in New York’s Hudson River Valley, where she writes, works, and never gives up trying to lose ten pounds.