Crooked Hallelujah

Crooked Hallelujah
Title Crooked Hallelujah PDF eBook
Author Kelli Jo Ford
Publisher Grove Press
Pages 247
Release 2020-07-14
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0802149146

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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

Missouri Homestead

Missouri Homestead
Title Missouri Homestead PDF eBook
Author Thomas L. Tedrow
Publisher Thomas Nelson Publishers
Pages 228
Release 1992
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 9780840733979

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In 1884, when Laura, Manly, and their daughter Rose come from South Dakota to Mansfield, Missouri, looking for a better life, Laura's outspoken articles against a local timberman cause some problems.

The Missouri Review

The Missouri Review
Title The Missouri Review PDF eBook
Author
Publisher
Pages 808
Release 2016
Genre American literature
ISBN

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The Missouri Review

The Missouri Review
Title The Missouri Review PDF eBook
Author Speer Morgan
Publisher
Pages
Release 2016-12-27
Genre
ISBN 9781945829024

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Now We're Getting Somewhere

Now We're Getting Somewhere
Title Now We're Getting Somewhere PDF eBook
Author David Clewell
Publisher Univ of Wisconsin Press
Pages 100
Release 1994
Genre Poetry
ISBN 9780299144142

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His compassionate witness is born out of immersion in doggedly bittersweet particulars: the cock-eyed wisdom of 1950s science fiction movies; Do Not Disturb signs; vegetarian physics; the perils of bed-and-breakfast lodging; flying saucer disciples; what to do in case of Rapture; Debbie Fuller, reluctant childhood angel; the theory and practice of Spontaneous Human Combustion. His passionate transformation of that raw data into song - no matter how fragile or raucous - provides irrefutable testimony about the consequences of being nothing less than human, where "every day someone crawls out of his ocean of sleep / and takes those first tottering steps on the planet again / he's playing with real fire." And with Clewell's insistence on the unlikely grace in that condition, along with the generosity of his unabashed inclusiveness, his poetry is a powerful antidote to the bad medicine we're too often asked to swallow.

The American Book of the Dead

The American Book of the Dead
Title The American Book of the Dead PDF eBook
Author Jim Barnes
Publisher University of Illinois Press
Pages 124
Release 1982
Genre Poetry
ISBN 9780252009389

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Waveform

Waveform
Title Waveform PDF eBook
Author Marcia Aldrich
Publisher University of Georgia Press
Pages 287
Release 2016
Genre Literary Collections
ISBN 0820350214

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Waveform champions the diversity of women?s approaches to the structure of the essay, today a site of invention and innovation, with experiments in col-lage, fragments, segmentation, braids, triptychs, and diptychs.