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03155aam a22004577i 4500 001 8B3B24106A0711EC9CB354F147ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240315010227 008 201209t20212020nyu 000 1 eng d 020 $a 9781984897947 020 $a 1984897942 035 $a (OCoLC)1226175131 040 $a YDX $b eng $c YDX $d BDX $d NBU $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d SILO 050 14 $a PS3613.C38683 $b B4 2021 100 1 $a McDaniel, Tiffany, $e author. 245 10 $a Betty / $c Tiffany McDaniel. 250 $a First Vintage Books edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Vintage Books, an division of Random House LLC, $c 2021. 300 $a 478 pages ; $c 21 cm. 520 $a "A stunning, lyrical coming-of-age novel set in the rolling foothills of the Appalachians in which a young girl, with only the compass of her father's imagination, must navigate racism, sexism, and the dark secrets that will haunt her for the rest of her life. "A girl comes of age against the knife." So begins the story of Betty Carpenter. Born in a bathtub in Arkansas in 1954 to a Cherokee father and white mother, Betty is the sixth of eight siblings. The world they inhabit is one of poverty, racism, abuse, and violence--both from outside the family, and also, devastatingly, from within. After years on the road, searching in vain for a better life, the Carpenters return to their hometown of Breathed, Ohio, in northern Appalachia. There, they move into a sprawling wreck of a farmhouse that local legend says is cursed. The townsfolk decide the Carpenters are cursed, too: "My mother gave birth to eight of us," Betty tells us in her frank, wry voice. "More than one would die for no good reason in the prizewinning years of their youth. Some blamed God for taking too few. Others accused the Devil of leaving too many." But Betty is resilient. Her father's inventive stories are kindling for the fire of her own imagination and even in the face of tragedy and death, her creativity is irrepressible. Against overwhelming odds, she may be the first member of her family to break the cycle of abuse and trauma--and escape"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Cherokee Indians $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Racially mixed people $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Family secrets $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Family violence $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Rural families $z Ohio $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Rural conditions $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Ohio $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Appalachian Region, Southern $v Fiction. 650 7 $a Cherokee Indians. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00853662 650 7 $a Family secrets. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01737651 650 7 $a Family violence. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00920540 650 7 $a Racially mixed people. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01086595 650 7 $a Rural conditions. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01101474 650 7 $a Rural families. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01101623 651 7 $a Ohio. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01205075 651 7 $a Southern Appalachian Region. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01864776 655 7 $a Fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423787 941 $a 1 952 $l SAPG074 $d 20220104015000.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=8B3B24106A0711EC9CB354F147ECA4DB 994 $a Z0 $b LJWInitiate Another SILO Locator Search