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The story follows Icy, a young girl in rural Eastern Kentucky during the 1950s and 1960s, whose Tourette's syndrome is misdiagnosed as mental illness — until she discovers that many of the people at a revivalist tent meeting exhibit similar tics, leading her to believe it may be something spiritual rather than medical. 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