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The Maid's Version is a perfect introduction and an invitation to read more. It's a short book — almost a novella at a mere 164 pages — but there are lifetimes captured here. Woodrell sets the story in his beloved Missouri Ozarks, and he writes with clear-eyed observation, introducing the reader to characters whose lives are shaped as much by their rural landscape as by the moral ambiguities — the collective lies, constraints and collusions — that form the necessary glue holding their community
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3.5 stars. A very solid read about the devastating effects a disaster has on a small town during the depression and the generations that followed. Almost a mystery, but a story about how it happened and how the connections between people lead both to love and hatred.
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