Kind of Kin - Rilegato

Askew, Rilla

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0062198793 ISBN 13: 9780062198792

Casa editrice: Ecco Pr, 2013

Riassunto

When her father is tossed in jail for hiding a barn full of Mexicans, her 10-year-old nephew disappears, and her son comes home, bringing a world of trouble with him, Sweet is driven to desperate actions to fix things, which tests her family, friends and neighbors in unexpected ways. 50,000 first printing.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Rilla Askew received a 2009 Arts and Letters Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She is the author of four novels, and has been nominated for the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Dublin IMPAC Prize, and is a three-time recipient of the Oklahoma Book Award.

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With the passing of a new state law, it becomes a felony to harbor an undocumented immigrant in Oklahoma. So when Robert John Brown, a churchgoing family man and respected community member, is caught hiding a barnful of migrant workers with no papers, he is arrested and sent to prison. Meanwhile, his ten-year-old grandson Dustin tries to help the sole escapee of the raid reunite with his family, and his granddaughter, Misty, is struggling to raise her daughter alone after her husband, an illegal immigrant himself, has been deported. Then there's Brown's daughter Sweet, who finds her life unraveling: her father is refusing to speak in court to defend himself, her nephew is missing, her niece is in need of shelter, and the stress of it all is destroying her marriage.

Rilla Askew's brilliant, hilarious, and heartfelt novel follows a handful of complicated lawmakers and lawbreakers as workers are exiled, friends turn informers, and families are torn apart in a statewide exodus of Hispanics. In the end, Kind of Kin reveals how an ad hoc family, and an entire town, will unite to do anything necessary to protect its own.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Ecco Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0062198793
• ISBN 13: 9780062198792
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 417
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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