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The Sweet In-Between
| Title | The Sweet In-Between |
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| Date | 2024-10-11 21:38:20 |
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| Link | Listen Read |
Desciption
Desperate for a place to belong with her father in prison and her mother dead, teenager Kenny Lugo finds a less-than-idyllic home with her Aunt Glo, her father's struggling girlfriend, and her children, until she finds redemption from an unexpected source following the killing of a college girl in the house next door. By the author of Firefly Cloak. (General Fiction)
Review
The other day I was listening to Lucinda Williams, and when I heard "Car Wheels on a Gravel Road" I thought immediately of this book ("little bit o' dirt, mixed with tears"). The protagonist seemed entirely real to me--the very picture of unhinged, devastating Southern poverty and ignorance. I'm Southern myself, and I have gritted my teeth in irritation at the stereotyping and the complete-missing-of-the-boat in literary and dramatic depictions of slices of Southern life. (I could not make it through "Steel Magnolias." So awful.) This story felt dead on to me.
