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Crooked Hallelujah

By Ford, Kelli Jo

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Crooked Hallelujah

By Ford, Kelli Jo

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"A masterful debut" that follows four generations of Cherokee women across four decades—from the Plimpton Prize–winning author (Sarah Jessica Parker). It's 1974 in the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma and fifteen-year-old Justine grows up in a family of tough, complicated, and loyal women, presided over by her mother, Lula, and Granny. After Justine's father abandoned the family, Lula became a devout member of the Holiness Church—a community that Justine at times finds stifling and terrifying. But Justine does her best as a devoted daughter, until an act of violence sends her on a different path forever. Crooked Hallelujah 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 tornados—intent on stripping away their connections to one another and their very ideas of home. In lush and empathic prose, Kelli Jo Ford depicts what this family of proud, stubborn, Cherokee women sacrifices for those they love, amid larger forces of history, religion, class, and culture. This is a big-hearted and ambitious novel of the powerful bonds between mothers and daughters by an exquisite and rare new talent. "A compelling journey through the evolving terrain of multiple generations of women." —The Washington Post
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
304
Release Date:
2021-07-20
Publication Date:
2021-07-20
Publisher:
Grove Atlantic
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0802149138
ISBN13:
9780802149138
Weight:
294 g
Height:
138 cm
Width:
206 cm
Thickness:
24 cm
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