Reading Recommendation: Winter's Bone by Daniel Woodrell

This is a rare case of "Saw the movie, bought the book," and even rarer case of "both worked."  For my usual readers, It's NOT genre fiction, except to the extent the life of people in Ozark Mountains feels a planet away from Seattle.  I'm currently working on a strong female character in my novel project, and Woodrell's Ree Dolly is one of the strongest I've come across where her strength feels intrinsic and both possible and plausible, yet it's enough to blow you away.  Ree is real.

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