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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Crooked hallelujah
  name:
    name part: Ford, Kelli Jo
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: Domestic fiction.
  genre: Fiction.
  genre: Historical fiction.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2020
    copyright date: 2020
    edition: First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: vi, 288 pages ; 22 cm
  abstract: 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.
  abstract: "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 she 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 tornadoes, 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 women sacrifice for those they love, amid larger forces of history, religion, class, and culture. This is a big-hearted and ambitious novel-in-stories of the powerful bonds between mothers and daughters by an exquisite and rare new talent"--Provided by publisher.
  note: Kelli Jo Ford.
  note: "Winner of the Plimpton Prize"--Jacket.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us-tx
  subject:
    topic: Cherokee women
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Mothers and daughters
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    geographic: Cherokee Nation, Oklahoma
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    geographic: Texas
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: FICTION / Short Stories (single author)
  subject:
    topic: FICTION / Literary
  subject:
    topic: FICTION / Family Life / General
  subject:
    topic: Cherokee women
  subject:
    topic: Mothers and daughters
  classification: PS3606.O7393 C76 2020
  classification: 813/.6
  identifier: 9780802149121
  identifier: 080214912X
  identifier: 9780802149145
  identifier: 2020026007
  location:
    physical location: pda,print
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 200608
    record change date: 20250318215939.6
    record identifier: in00004347059
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng