![]() ![]() She has to dig deep to do what it takes to feed her daughters, to save them and make a life for them. With a drunk for a husband, they live in squalor and they are starving. Gertrude is a battered wife and mother of four young daughters. ![]() Three points of view skillfully depicted. Spera introduces us to three women, each an unforgettable character in their own way. ![]() This is rural South Carolina in 1924, devastated by boll weevils, hurricanes, the depressive economic time that the South experienced even before the Great Depression, but there are other struggles. I don’t use the word atmospheric very often, but it’s hard to not describe this book in that way. “It’s easier to kill a man than a gator, but it takes the same kind of wait.” What a fantastic line and what an amazing debut novel. Once in a while the opening sentence of a story is enough for me to know that I’ll be taken with it. ![]()
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