Description: Valentine - by Elizabeth Wetmore Paperback - NEW 📖 - actual item pictured. Thank you for your interest, please browse some of the other items in our store. We combine Shipping, add all items to your cart then checkout at one time. An instant New York Times BestsellerA Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick! A thrilling debut that deserves your attention. -Ron Charles, the Washington Post 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. Mercy is hard in a place like this . . . 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 Ramírez 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. Dimensions (Overall): 9 Inches (H) x 1 Inches (W) x 6 Inches (D)Weight: 1 PoundsSuggested Age: 22 Years and UpNumber of Pages: 320Genre: Fiction + Literature GenresSub-Genre: LiteraryPublisher: Harper PerennialFormat: PaperbackAuthor: Elizabeth WetmoreLanguage: EnglishStreet Date: March 2, 2021TCIN: 81821904UPC: 9780062913272
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Book Title: Valentine : a Novel
Number of Pages: 320 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: HarperCollins
Topic: Small Town & Rural, Family Life, Thrillers / Legal, Coming of Age, Historical
Publication Year: 2021
Item Height: 0.7 in
Genre: Fiction
Item Weight: 8.5 Oz
Author: Elizabeth Wetmore
Item Length: 8 in
Item Width: 5.3 in
Format: Trade Paperback
