Crooked hallelujah
(Audiobook CD)

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Published
[Grand Haven, Michigan] : Brilliance :, [2021].
Format
Audiobook CD
Physical Desc
6 audio discs (approximately 7.5 hr.) ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
ISBN
9781713579045, 1713579049

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Participants/Performers
Performed by Tanis Parenteau.
Description
It's 1974 in the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma and fifteen-year-old Justine grows up in a family of tough, complicated, and loyal women, presided over by her mother, Lula, and Granny. After Justine's father abandoned the family, Lula became a devout member of the Holiness Church-a community that Justine at times finds stifling and terrifying. But she does her best as a devoted daughter, until an act of violence sends her on a different path forever. Crooked Hallelujah tells the stories of Justine-a mixed-blood Cherokee woman-and her daughter, Reney, as they move from Eastern Oklahoma's Indian Country in the hopes of starting a new, more stable life in Texas amid the oil bust of the 1980s. However, life in Texas isn't easy, and Reney feels unmoored from her family in Indian Country. Against the vivid backdrop of the Red River, we see their struggle to survive in a world of unreliable men and near-Biblical natural forces, like wildfires and tornadoes-- intent on stripping away their connections to one another and their very ideas of home. In lush and empathic prose, Kelli Jo Ford depicts what this family of proud, stubborn women sacrifice for those they love, amid larger forces of history, religion, class, and culture. This is a bighearted and ambitious novel of the powerful bonds between mothers and daughters by an exquisite and rare new talent.
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AUDIOBOOK CD

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Ford, K. J., & Parenteau, T. (2021). Crooked hallelujah (Unabridged.). Brilliance :.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Ford, Kelli Jo and Tanis, Parenteau. 2021. Crooked Hallelujah. Brilliance.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Ford, Kelli Jo and Tanis, Parenteau. Crooked Hallelujah Brilliance, 2021.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Ford, Kelli Jo,, and Tanis Parenteau. Crooked Hallelujah Unabridged., Brilliance :, 2021.

Note! Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy. Citation formats are based on standards as of August 2021.

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