Description
In 1974 Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, fifteen-year-old Justine navigates a life shaped by fierce love and hard rules under the watch of her mother, Lula, and her grandmother, Granny. When faith and family collide—after abandonment, grief, and violence—Justine’s choices ripple forward into the next generation, as she becomes the mother of Reney and the architect of a different kind of survival. Spanning decades and moving from Indian Country toward Texas during the oil bust, the novel follows these women as they seek stability, dignity, and freedom from the traditions that both shelter and constrain them. With lyrical, character-driven storytelling, it explores themes of motherhood, mixed-blood identity, Pentecostal culture, and the complicated ways hope can persist even in the most unforgiving places.
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hardcover
Grove Press
Published Jul 14, 2020
304 pages
ISBN: 9780802149121
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First Published
2020
Language
eng
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