Woodrell, Daniel. Winter's Bone. Little, Brown. Aug.
2006. c.208p. ISBN 0-316-05755-X. $22.95. F
Sixteen-year-old Ree Dolly has a plan. She's going to join
the army as soon as she can free herself from her complicated
family obligations. Unfortunately, her father, part of a
large extended Dolly family crystal meth enterprise, is
missing. Her mother's mind is gone, and two little brothers
worship at Ree's feet. Ree gets word that her father has
skipped bail; if he doesn't meet his court date, the family
loses its home, and there's nowhere to go. Ree begins a
journey through the savage poverty of a brutally cold Ozarks
winter to deliver her father before his court date.
Woodrell's captivatingly resourceful protagonist both
enchants and horrifies with her fierce determination to get
to the truth of her father's disappearance and to protect her
brothers. When she takes on the Dolly family's deep,
cancerous control of the meth network, the eruption of
violence nearly costs her everything. Woodrell's eighth novel
(after The Death of Sweet Mister) exposes the tragedy of
crystal meth in rural America in all its brutal ugliness in
language that is both razor sharp and grimly gorgeous. Highly
recommended. [See Prepub Alert, LJ 4/15/06.]
from the Library Journal.
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