![]() ![]() Even when she confesses to her mother what happened, her mother refuses to believe it "they're nice kids, they'd never do that." So Beth finds friendship with a local biracial Aboriginal girl and the two of them explore their sexuality together.Īll the while, there's another local "crazy man" who's been possessed by the trickster Coyote and has a hunger for young children. Beth drops out of school after being stripped and tormented by the other kids. The older brother is mostly "normal" until you find out he's got a thing for cows. Her mother is part submissive, part willfully blind to the abuse he gives his family, the daughter in particular. Her father went crazy about a year prior and is prone to fly into rages unexpectedly. They're so rural and back-country that it might as well be 100 years ago. (Stop reading here if you want "nothing given away".)īeth is a farmer's daughter to a poor family in rural country during WWII. The content is way too heavy to be considered "light-hearted." It must have been the title and the cover that made me think this book was entertaining. I never again look at what the book is supposed to be about so that nothing is given away. See, I tend to quickly read summaries of books, decide if it's of interest, and then add it to my "to read" list. ![]() I don't know why, but I had it in my head that this was a fun, light-hearted book, sort of in the way that by is. ![]()
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