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Crooked Hallelujah

Kelli Jo Ford

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.

GenresCherokee womenFictionMothers and daughtersShort Stories (single author)LiteraryFamily Life

288 pages, 3 editions

English edition · First published 2020 by Grove Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic · ISBN 9780802149121

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3 editions

English

  • Crooked Hallelujah · Grove Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic · 2020 · ISBN 9780802149121 This page
  • Crooked Hallelujah · Grove Press · 2021 · ISBN 9780802149138
  • Crooked Hallelujah · Grove Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic · 2020 · ISBN 9780802149145

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