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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     McDaniel, Tiffany, author.     Subjects     Cherokee Indians -- Fiction.     Racially mixed people -- Fiction.     Family secrets -- Fiction.     Family violence -- Fiction.     Rural families -- Ohio -- Fiction.     Rural conditions -- Fiction.     Ohio -- Fiction.     Appalachian Region, Southern -- Fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      McDaniel, Tiffany, author.       by title:      Betty / Tiffany McDa...         MARC Display

Betty / Tiffany McDaniel. by McDaniel, Tiffany, author. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2020] Subjects Cherokee Indians -- Fiction.   Racially mixed people -- Fiction.   Family secrets -- Fiction.   Family violence -- Fiction.   Rural families -- Ohio -- Fiction.   Rural conditions -- Fiction.   Ohio -- Fiction.   Appalachian Region, Southern -- Fiction. ISBN:  9780525657071 hardcover 052565707X hardcover Description:  465 pages ; 24 cm Edition:  First edition. Requests:  0 Summary:  "A girl comes of age against the knife." So begins the story of Betty Carpenter. Born in a bathtub in Arkansas in 1954 to a Cherokee father and white mother, Betty is the sixth of eight siblings. The world they inhabit is one of poverty, racism, abuse, and violence--both from outside the family, and also, devastatingly, from within. After years on the road, searching in vain for a better life, the Carpenters return to their hometown of Breathed, Ohio, in northern Appalachia. There, they move into a sprawling wreck of a farmhouse that local legend says is cursed. The townsfolk decide the Carpenters are cursed, too: "My mother gave birth to eight of us," Betty tells us in her frank, wry voice. "More than one would die for no good reason in the prizewinning years of their youth. Some blamed God for taking too few. Others accused the Devil of leaving too many." But Betty is resilient. Her father's inventive stories are kindling for the fire of her own imagination and even in the face of tragedy and death, her creativity is irrepressible. Against overwhelming odds, she may be the first member of her family to break the cycle of abuse and trauma--and escape"--   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status Due Date   Hana P/S Library Adult Fiction McDaniel Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Fiction McDaniel Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Kapolei Public Library Adult Fiction McDaniel Checked out 06/29/2024 Add Copy to MyList Kealakekua Public Library Adult Fiction McDaniel Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Kihei Public Library Adult Fiction McDaniel Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Lanai P/S Library Adult Fiction McDaniel Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Mililani Public Library Adult Fiction McDaniel Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Wailuku Public Library Adult Fiction McDaniel Checked In   Add Copy to MyList

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