TEENAGER Ree Dolly lives in grinding poverty in the Ozark backwoods where kinship and a code of silence reign.
Her father, who is in and out of prison, has disappeared.
Her mother has given up and Ree struggles to look after her younger siblings.
The story follows her search for her father after he jumps bail, having put the family home up as security, but the courageous heroine has to face violent men and equally violent women to uncover the terrible truth. This is a strikingly wrought tale - brutal, beautiful, vivid, edgy and amazing.
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