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Betty

Tiffany McDaniel

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Feb 07, 2021 Deb rated it it was amazing

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One of the most beautifully written stories I have read. We first meet Betty an 8 year old who is one of 8 children born to a white woman and a Cherokee man. They are struggling financially in the Appalachians of Ohio. Betty faces intense racism. She, of all her brothers and sisters, inherits the Cherokee dark skin and hair. Her father teaches her the Cherokee culture. Her relationship with her father is the true gold of this story. There is continual tragedy yet Betty breaks through with her fa ...more

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May 17, 2022 Sue rated it really liked it

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Reminiscent of Brynn Greenwood's All the Ugly and Wonderful Things, and Dorothy Allison's Bastard Out of Carolina, this is a very hard book to read about a girl coming of age in a small town riven with generational poverty, bigotry, sexual abuse, incest, violence, tragedy, and loss. That it was written by the daughter of this 'girl', when she was just 17, makes it remarkable, and proves that escape from even the darkest places is possible.

The audiobook narration by Dale Dickey brought the story ...more

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