Daniel Woodrell
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Language
English
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Big Book Club Palate Cleansers
Read-Alikes for The Lincoln Highway
Read-Alikes for The Searcher
To the Point
Read-Alikes for The Lincoln Highway
Read-Alikes for The Searcher
To the Point
Description
Reaching her sixteenth year in the harsh Ozarks while caring for her poverty-stricken family, Ree Dolly learns that they will lose their house unless her bail-skipping father can be found and made to appear at an upcoming court date.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Alma DeGeer Dunahew, the mother of three young boys, works as the maid for a prominent citizen and his family in West Table, Missouri. Her husband is mostly absent, and, in 1929, her scandalous, beloved younger sister is one of the 42 killed in an explosion at the local dance hall. Who is to blame? Mobsters from St. Louis? The embittered local gypsies? The preacher who railed against the loose morals of the waltzing couples? Or could it have been...
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