**Longlisted for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize“Delivered with such conviction and grace … fresh … essential.” —The New York Times Book ReviewWhen outsiders on a mission arrive to change a small town’s attitudes, residents and newcomers alike end up transformed.**Big Burr, Kansas is the kind of place where everyone seems to know everyone—or so they think. But when a national nonprofit labels Big Burr “the most homophobic town in the U.S.” and se...