Crooked hallelujah

Summary: Tells the stories of Justine--a mixed-blood Cherokee woman--and her daughter, Reney, as they move from Eastern Oklahoma's Indian Country in the hopes of starting a new, more stable life in Texas amid the oil bust of the 1980s. However, life in Texas isn't easy, and Reney feels unmoored from her family in Indian Country. Against the vivid backdrop of the Red River, we see their struggle to survive in a world--of unreliable men and near-Biblical natural forces like wildfires and tornadoes--intent on stripping away their connections to one another and their very ideas of home.

Item details

ISBN: 9780802149121
ISBN: 080214912X
ISBN: 9780802149145
Physical Description: print
vi, 288 pages ; 22 cm
Edition: First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Publisher: New York, NY : Grove Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic, 2020.
Copyright: ©2020

Contents / Notes

Awards Note:

"Winner of the Plimpton Prize"--Jacket.

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Subject:

Cherokee women Fiction
Mothers and daughters Fiction
Cherokee Nation, Oklahoma Fiction
Texas Fiction
FICTION / Short Stories (single author)
FICTION / Literary
FICTION / Family Life / General
Cherokee women
Mothers and daughters

Genre:

Domestic fiction.
Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Historical fiction.

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