Foxhead Books has published Jessica Dawn Penner's debut novel, Shaken in the Water. Set in Kansas in the early 1900s, Penner's compelling story follows the life of Agnes, a Mennonite woman born with "a birthmark known in Low German as Tieja Kjoaw, the Tiger's Scar." Reviewer Rudy Wiebe comments, "The reality of the world Jessica Penner creates in 'Shaken in the Water' is never quite what it appears to be: love can so swiftly shift-shape into hatred, rage into compassion, understanding into rejection and longing. But for the reader there is always the Voice calling, 'Herein!'—'Come in!'"
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