Rilla Askew's funny and poignant novel explores what happens when upstanding people are pushed too far. All of Cedar, Oklahoma, is shocked when Bible-believing Bob Brown and his friend, Pastor Jesus Garcia, are tossed in the county jail for hiding a barn-full of Mexicans. Thanks to an ambitious blonde state legislator and her politically shrewd husband, it's a felony to harbour an undocumented immigrant in the Sooner State. It's bad enough that her Christian daddy is a felon, but now Bob Brown refuses to defend himself, creating a mess of trouble for his daughter, Sweet.