TY - BOOK AU - Kelli Jo Ford AU - Kelli Jo Ford TI - Crooked hallelujah SN - 9780802149138 U1 - 813.6 FOR PY - 2020/// CY - New York, NY PB - :Grove Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic KW - Fiction KW - Abused women Fiction KW - ;Cherokee women N1 - Book of the generations The care and feeding of goldfish Annie Mae The year 2003 minus 20 Terra firma Greater the mass, stronger the pull Hybrid vigor Then sings my soul You'll be honest, you'll be brave You will miss me when I burn Bonita Consider the lillies What good is an ark to a fish? N2 - Tells the stories of Justine--a mixed-blood Cherokee woman--and her daughter, Reney, as they move from Eastern Oklahoma's Indian Country in the hopes of starting a new, more stable life in Texas amid the oil bust of the 1980s. However, life in Texas isn't easy, and Reney feels unmoored from her family in Indian Country. Against the vivid backdrop of the Red River, we see their struggle to survive in a world--of unreliable men and near-Biblical natural forces like wildfires and tornadoes--intent on stripping away their connections to one another and their very ideas of home ER -