Opulence, Kansas

Winner, 2021 Midwest Book Awards, Young Adult Category

Finalist, 2021 High Plains Book Award

Selected as a "recommended title" by the Kansas National Education Association's Reading Circle Commission.

When Katie Myrdal's father is found dead in his Porsche, everything she thought she knew about her family is shaken. Her uncle Len and his wife Maggie-relatives she barely knew existed-show up at the funeral and offer an escape for the summer to their Kansas farm. Katie abandons her Chicago Gold Coast high-rise life to land beneath the wider skies of the prairie. Grappling with loss and disillusionment, Katie must forge new skills and new friendships in a small town called Opulence, a town holding secrets and riches she will need before she can go back home.