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Askew, Rilla.
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Families -- Oklahoma -- Fiction.
Noncitizens -- Fiction.
Migrant agricultural laborers -- Fiction.
Oklahoma -- Fiction.
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Askew, Rilla.
Families -- Oklahoma -- Fiction.
Noncitizens -- Fiction.
Migrant agricultural laborers -- Fiction.
Oklahoma -- Fiction.
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Kind
of
kin
/ Rilla Askew.
by
Askew, Rilla.
Ecco, c2013.
Call #:
FICTION ASK
Subjects
Families -- Oklahoma -- Fiction.
Noncitizens -- Fiction.
Migrant agricultural laborers -- Fiction.
Oklahoma -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9780062198792
0062198793
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
417 p. : geneal. table ; 24 cm.
Summary:
"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 church-going 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."--Publisher.
Genre:
Social commentary fiction.
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