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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Publisher Weekly Review     More Content       More by this author     Wetmore, Elizabeth.     Subjects     Women -- Violence against -- Fiction.     Small cities -- Fiction.     Oil industries -- Fiction.     Race relations -- Fiction.     Odessa (Tex.) -- Fiction.     Texas -- Fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Wetmore, Elizabeth.       by title:      Valentine : a novel ...       by call number:      FICTION WET     Search the Web     Wetmore, Elizabeth.     Women -- Violence against -- Fiction.     Small cities -- Fiction.     Oil industries -- Fiction.     Race relations -- Fiction.     Odessa (Tex.) -- Fiction.     Texas -- Fiction.       MARC Display

Valentine : a novel / Elizabeth Wetmore. by Wetmore, Elizabeth. Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2020. Call #: FICTION WET Subjects Women -- Violence against -- Fiction.   Small cities -- Fiction.   Oil industries -- Fiction.   Race relations -- Fiction.   Odessa (Tex.) -- Fiction.   Texas -- Fiction. ISBN:  9780062913265 Edition:  1st ed. Description:  308 p. ; 24 cm. Summary:  "Written with the haunting emotional power of Elizabeth Strout and Barbara Kingsolver, an astonishing debut novel that explores the lingering effects of a brutal crime on the women of one small Texas oil town in the 1970s. It's February 1976, and Odessa, Texas, stands on the cusp of the next great oil boom. While the town's men embrace the coming prosperity, its women intimately know and fear the violence that always seems to follow. In the early hours of the morning after Valentine's Day, fourteen-year-old Gloria Ramirez appears on the front porch of Mary Rose Whitehead's ranch house, broken and barely alive. The teenager had been viciously attacked in a nearby oil field--an act of brutality that is tried in the churches and barrooms of Odessa before it can reach a court of law. When justice is evasive, the stage is set for a showdown with potentially devastating consequences. Valentine is a haunting exploration of the intersections of violence and race, class and region in a story that plumbs the depths of darkness and fear, yet offers a window into beauty and hope. Told through the alternating points of view of indelible characters who burrow deep in the reader's heart, this fierce, unflinching, and surprisingly tender novel illuminates women's strength and vulnerability, and reminds us that it is the stories we tell ourselves that keep us alive."--Jacket flap. Genre:  First novel. Psychological fiction. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Alderney Gate Public Library Adult Fiction FICTION WET Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Central Library Adult Fiction FICTION WET Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Central Library Adult Fiction FICTION WET Adult books Adult Display 5 Add Copy to MyList Sackville Public Library Adult Fiction FICTION WET Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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