03104cam a2200313 4500 521748365 TxAuBib 20210904120000.0 ||||||s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780802149145 0802149146 B07ZHM9KLQ Amazon e4c32690-b9ba-4187-a6f5-bdec1b749f19 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 5068718 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Ford, Kelli Jo. Crooked Hallelujah [Libby]. Grove Atlantic, 2020. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 2440kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Fiction. Literature. HTML:"A book that you want to share with everyone you know and one that you are desperate to keep in your own possession. A masterful debut and a new and thrilling voice for readers across the globe." —<b>Sarah Jessica Parker</b> <p><b>The remarkable debut from Plimpton Prize Winner Kelli Jo Ford, <i>Crooked Hallelujah</i> follows four generations of Cherokee women across four decades</b></p> <p>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.<br /> <i>Crooked Hallelujah</i> 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.<br /> 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.</p>. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 13:21:58. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=e4c32690-b9ba-4187-a6f5-bdec1b749f19&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=e4c32690-b9ba-4187-a6f5-bdec1b749f19&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=e4c32690-b9ba-4187-a6f5-bdec1b749f19&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)