The SacrificeNew York Times bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates returns with an incendiary novel that illuminates the tragic impact of sexual violence, racism, brutality, and power on innocent lives and probes the persistence of stereotypes, the nature of revenge, the complexities of truth, and our insatiable hunger for sensationalism. When a fourteen year old girl is the alleged victim of a terrible act of racial violence, the incident shocks and galvanizes her

who just happens to be his son-in-law

So it came to be that a small group of maverick fighter pilots and Electronic Warfare Officers volunteered to fly behind enemy lines and into the teeth of the threat

and a handsome fiancé

bad habits

investigates the rise and fall of classic rock radio

and shape-shifting scawgs before facing her greatest challenge in the spindlers' lair

Then her mom surprises her by buying a dilapidated house in their neighborhood

this time from the sharp

and Garth Brooks

As she fervently pursues her quest to find a white husband

This definitive account puts you in the cockpit for every harrowing moment of the legendary flight:

proving that with enough hustle