Crooked hallelujah
(Book)
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Published
New York : Grove Press, [2020].
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780802149121, 080214912X
Physical Desc
vi, 288 pages ; 22 cm
Status
Cook Memorial Library - Fiction Section
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Published
New York : Grove Press, [2020].
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
ISBN
9780802149121, 080214912X
Notes
Description
"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 she 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 tornadoes-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 women sacrifice for those they love, amid larger forces of history, religion, class, and culture. This is a big-hearted and ambitious novel-in-stories of the powerful bonds between mothers and daughters by an exquisite and rare new talent"--
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Ford, K. J. (2020). Crooked hallelujah (First edition.). Grove Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Ford, Kelli Jo. 2020. Crooked Hallelujah. Grove Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Ford, Kelli Jo. Crooked Hallelujah Grove Press, 2020.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Ford, Kelli Jo. Crooked Hallelujah First edition., Grove Press, 2020.
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