Crooked hallelujah / Kelli Jo Ford.

Ford, Kelli Jo, author.

Book

First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.

First edition.

New York : Grove Press, 2020.

vi, 288 pages ; 22 cm

"[This book] 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.

Cherokee women -- Fiction.

Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.

Families -- Fiction.

Rape -- Fiction.

Abused wives -- Fiction.

Women -- Abuse of -- Fiction.

Cherokee Nation, Oklahoma -- Fiction.

Texas -- Fiction.

Domestic fiction.

"Winner of the Plimpton Prize"--Jacket.

9780802149121

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