Gap-Toothed Girl: The story of a little Lakota runaway seeking balance in ballet

This story will make you cry, and it will make you feel triumphant at the same time. It is a heart-touching story – a story will move mountains. – Cynthia Reznik, MD Tournament night in a sweltering Las Vegas stadium, and the girl with the gap-toothed smile stood bleeding in her ballet slippers.

So begins Gap-Toothed Girl, the story of Dusty May, a Lakota orphan with a radiant smile and an iron will, who runs away from the horrific circumstances of her foster home and her foster father - a man of beast-like brilliance and power - to pursue her dream of lightness and ballet, even as her foster father unleashes an army to bring her down.

Part literary fiction, part thriller, part dance story, Gap-Toothed Girl is at its core a tale of human joy and freedom of will - a fast-paced novel combining the surreal imagery of Nabokov with the psychological complexity of Dostoevsky to more thoroughly investigate the depths of the human psyche and the indomitable will to succeed, ultimately drilling down into the very nature of happiness, art, and the human soul.