Description: Crooked Hallelujah by Kelli Jo Ford The remarkable debut from Plimpton Prize Winner Kelli Jo Ford, Crooked Hallelujah follows four generations of Cherokee women across four decades FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description "A book that you want to share with everyone you know and one that you are desperate to keep in your own possession. A masterful debut and a new and thrilling voice for readers across the globe." --Sarah Jessica Parker, on Instagram Its 1974 in the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma and fifteen-year-old Justine grows up in a family of tough, complicated, and loyal women presided over by her mother, Lula, and Granny. After Justines father abandoned the family, Lula became a devout member of the Holiness Church - a community that Justine at times finds stifling and terrifying. But Justine does her best as a devoted daughter until an act of violence sends her on a different path forever. Crooked Hallelujah tells the stories of Justine--a mixed-blood Cherokee woman-- and her daughter, Reney, as they move from Eastern Oklahomas 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 isnt 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 tornados--intent on stripping away their connections to one another and their very ideas of home. In lush and empathic prose, Kelli Jo Ford depicts what this family of proud, stubborn, Cherokee women sacrifices for those they love, amid larger forces of history, religion, class, and culture. This is a big-hearted and ambitious novel of the powerful bonds between mothers and daughters by an exquisite and rare new talent. Author Biography Kelli Jo Ford is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. She is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including the Paris Reviews Plimpton Prize, the Everett Southwest Literary Award, the Katherine Bakeless Nason Award at Bread Loaf, a National Artist Fellowship by the Native Arts & Cultures Foundation, and a Dobie Paisano Fellowship. Her fiction has appeared in The Paris Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Missouri Review, and the anthology Forty Stories: New Writing from Harper Perennial, among other places. Review Praise for Crooked Hallelujah New York Times Editors Choice "Top 10 New Books" by the New York Times An Indies Introduce An Indie Next Pick & A Library Reads Pick "In her more than promising first novel, Crooked Hallelujah, Kelli Jo Ford summons the details of minimum-wage life in the last quarter of the 20th century....This is a novel in stories, a dread form in the wrong hands...But Crooked Hallelujah has a supple cohesiveness....[Fords] book reads like a series of acoustic songs recorded on a single microphone in a bare room with a carpet. There are times when you might wish for more boldness, but she never puts a wrong foot. This is a writer who carefully husbands her resources. Small scenes begin to glitter." --Dwight Garner, New York Times "Kelli Jo Ford takes her readers on a compelling journey through the evolving terrain of multiple generations of women... This language is rich but never dense. Theres a lightness to the perspective which shifts and bends, prismed by a matrilineal succession of Cherokee and mixed-race women... Fords connection to her characters shines through the writing, infusing these voices with a sweet, sidelong zing." --Washington Post "[S]tunning and lovable... Ford has drawn characters who are earthy, honest and believable in how they resolve or reconcile to difficulties -- money, jobs, relationships with men. There are so many passages in this book that are moving..." --Minneapolis Star Tribune "[F]ull of poetry... Fords prose is so absorbing that youre right there... [Her] pages ache with tenderness and love and no small amount of frustration... These stories stand up beautifully to rereading; they made me excited for what the writer will do next." --San Francisco Chronicle "Ford, a citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, offers a novel in short stories, allowing her to move with ease through perspectives, history and time. Each heartbreaking chapter slowly adds to the readers understanding of these women and their increasingly difficult lives." --TIME "Kelli Jo Ford has penned an extraordinary debut set in 1974 in the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma that is focused on mothers and daughters, the strength and sacrifices of women and the journey that growth requires." --Ms. Magazine "Electrifying... A riveting and important read." --Booklist(starred review) "[A] magnificent debut...Ford adroitly, affectingly weaves indigenous history into her spellbinding narrative, exposing displacement, unacknowledged violence, cultural erasure, relentless racism and socioeconomic disparity." --Shelf Awareness "Fords storytelling is urgent, her characters achingly human and complex, and her language glittering and rugged. This is a stunner." --Publishers Weekly (starred review) "A book that you want to share with everyone you know and one that you are desperate to keep in your own possession. A masterful debut and a new and thrilling voice for readers across the globe." --Sarah Jessica Parker, on Instagram "Strife between saints and sinners simmers in this richly drawn, atmospheric debut by a citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. Justine, a mixed-blood teenager, rejects her evangelical upbringing for more earthly pleasures, risking biblical plagues to embark on a decades-long odyssey that will carry her and her daughter to the Texas oil fields. Ford unravels the stirring ties that bind Native American women across cultural and generational chasms."--O, Oprah Magazine "Engrossing and well-paced, this is a compelling story about women, mothers and daughters, the land, and family." --"13 of the Most Anticipated Books by Indigenous Authors For the Second Half of 2020," Lit Hub "Fords Crooked Hallelujah is more than just a really great title; its the book thats going to be taught in creative writing programs for decades to come... What else can you say about a writer who won the prestigious Plimpton Prize and was published in the Paris Review right out of the gate? Nothing beyond "Take my money."--Buzzfeed "Kelli Jo Fords Crooked Hallelujah masterfully evokes loss and displacement, steeped in Native American culture, rife with compassion and deep understanding. Kelli Jo Ford is a powerful new Native American writer who writes beautifully with stunning prose! She is brilliant, and I cant wait for people to read her amazing book." --Brandon Hobson, 2018 National Book Award Finalist and author of Where the Dead Sit Talking "Crooked Hallelujah is an intricate, soulful look at three generations of Cherokee women pushed (in Philip Larkins phrase) to the side of their own lives. At turns gripping and moving, Kelli Jo Fords characters and the Oklahoma and Texas landscape take center stage in a truly modern drama. Ford sidesteps the easy tropes of spirituality and connection to nature and has created a modern masterpiece peopled with complex, fully-realized characters. A huge achievement." --David Treuer "Startling close-ups of the sticky relationship between mothers and daughters, between body and nature, between childhood certainties and adult skepticism. Kelli Jo Fords writing is heartfelt and brimming with talent. This is a stunning, awe-inspiring debut."--Leila Aboulela Praise for Kelli Jo Ford: "Kelli Jo Fords writing is a high priority and will only gain in the worlds esteem...[her work] contains beauty and expected new intelligence."--Richard Ford on Kelli Jo Fords "Hybrid Vigor," winner of the 2019 Plimpton Prize Review Quote Praise for Crooked Hallelujah New York Times Editors Choice "Top 10 New Books" by the New York Times An Indies Introduce An Indie Next Pick & A Library Reads Pick Named One of TIME Magazines Must-Read Books of 2020 Longlisted for the 2021 Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction Longlisted for The Center for Fictions 2020 First Novel Prize Named a Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2020 for fiction "In her more than promising first novel, Crooked Hallelujah , Kelli Jo Ford summons the details of minimum-wage life in the last quarter of the 20th century....This is a novel in stories, a dread form in the wrong hands...But Crooked Hallelujah has a supple cohesiveness....[Fords] book reads like a series of acoustic songs recorded on a single microphone in a bare room with a carpet. There are times when you might wish for more boldness, but she never puts a wrong foot. This is a writer who carefully husbands her resources. Small scenes begin to glitter." -- Dwight Garner, New York Times "Kelli Jo Ford takes her readers on a compelling journey through the evolving terrain of multiple generations of women... This language is rich but never dense. Theres a lightness to the perspective which shifts and bends, prismed by a matrilineal succession of Cherokee and mixed-race women... Fords connection to her characters shines through the writing, infusing these voices with a sweet, sidelong zing." -- Washington Post "[S]tunning and lovable... Ford has drawn characters who are earthy, honest and believable in how they resolve or reconcile to difficulties -- money, jobs, relationships with men. There are so many passages in this book that are moving..." -- Minneapolis Star Tribune "[F]ull of poetry... Fords prose is so absorbing that youre right there... [Her] pages ache with tenderness and love and no small amount of frustration... These stories stand up beautifully to rereading; they made me excited for what the writer will do next." -- San Francisco Chronicle "Ford, a citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, offers a novel in short stories, allowing her to move with ease through perspectives, history and time. Each heartbreaking chapter slowly adds to the readers understanding of these women and their increasingly difficult lives." -- TIME "Kelli Jo Ford has penned an extraordinary debut set in 1974 in the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma that is focused on mothers and daughters, the strength and sacrifices of women and the journey that growth requires." -- Ms. Magazine "Electrifying... A riveting and important read." -- Booklist (starred review) "[A] magnificent debut...Ford adroitly, affectingly weaves indigenous history into her spellbinding narrative, exposing displacement, unacknowledged violence, cultural erasure, relentless racism and socioeconomic disparity." -- Shelf Awareness "Fords storytelling is urgent, her characters achingly human and complex, and her language glittering and rugged. This is a stunner." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) "A book that you want to share with everyone you know and one that you are desperate to keep in your own possession. A masterful debut and a new and thrilling voice for readers across the globe." -- Sarah Jessica Parker, on Instagram "Strife between saints and sinners simmers in this richly drawn, atmospheric debut by a citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. Justine, a mixed-blood teenager, rejects her evangelical upbringing for more earthly pleasures, risking biblical plagues to embark on a decades-long odyssey that will carry her and her daughter to the Texas oil fields. Ford unravels the stirring ties that bind Native American women across cultural and generational chasms."-- O, Oprah Magazine "Engrossing and well-paced, this is a compelling story about women, mothers and daughters, the land, and family." -- "13 of the Most Anticipated Books by Indigenous Authors For the Second Half of 2020," Lit Hub "Fords Crooked Hallelujah is more than just a really great title; its the book thats going to be taught in creative writing programs for decades to come... What else can you say about a writer who won the prestigious Plimpton Prize and was published in the Paris Review right out of the gate? Nothing beyond "Take my money."-- Buzzfeed "Kelli Jo Fords Crooked Hallelujah masterfully evokes loss and displacement, steeped in Native American culture, rife with compassion and deep understanding. Kelli Jo Ford is a powerful new Native American writer who writes beautifully with stunning prose! She is brilliant, and I cant wait for people to read her amazing book." -- Brandon Hobson, 2018 National Book Award Finalist and author of Where the Dead Sit Talking " Crooked Hallelujah is an intricate, soulful look at three generations of Cherokee women pushed (in Philip Larkins phrase) to the side of their own lives. At turns gripping and moving, Kelli Jo Fords characters and the Oklahoma and Texas landscape take center stage in a truly modern drama. Ford sidesteps the easy tropes of spirituality and connection to nature and has created a modern masterpiece peopled with complex, fully-realized characters. A huge achievement." -- David Treuer "Startling close-ups of the sticky relationship between mothers and daughters, between body and nature, between childhood certainties and adult skepticism. Kelli Jo Fords writing is heartfelt and brimming with talent. This is a stunning, awe-inspiring debut." --Leila Aboulela Praise for Kelli Jo Ford: "Kelli Jo Fords writing is a high priority and will only gain in the worlds esteem...[her work] contains beauty and expected new intelligence." --Richard Ford on Kelli Jo Fords "Hybrid Vigor," winner of the 2019 Plimpton Prize Description for Sales People "No matter where were born, love and family, and all the entanglements of mothers and daughters - and fathers - are universal. Kelli Jo Ford has created intense, visceral scenes, where this barren land is as important as the people who inhabit it. With the best of intentions, most of the time, but with flawed attempts, these are characters we all can relate to, and you will reflect upon long after youve finished that last page." - Julie Slavinsky, Warwicks Like fellow debut sensation Isabella Hammad, Kelli Jo Ford won this years Plimpton Prize from The Paris Review for her story "Hybrid Vigor." Judge Richard Ford said in his citation: "Kelli Jo Fords writing is a high priority and will only gain in the worlds esteem...[her work] contains beauty and unexpected new intelligence." Similarly structured to Louise Erdrichs Love Medicine , Dylan Landiss Normal People Dont Live Like This , and Elizabeth Strouts Olive Kitteridge , Crooked Hallelujah tells the story of a place through a family and vice-versa offering a blistering portrait of a mixed Native community and the impact of fundamentalist Christianity on generations of women. Will appeal to fans of Claire Vaye Watkins Battleborn , Bonnie Jo Campbells American Salvage , Tommy Oranges There, There , Laura van den Bergs The Isle of Youth , Brandon Hobsons Where the Dead Sit Talking , Jesmyn Wards Salvage the Bones and Sing, Unburied, Sing . Kelli Jo Ford is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma and the first in her family to graduate from college. Ford is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships including the Everett Southwest Literary Award, the Katherine Bakeless Nason Prize at Bread Loaf, a National Artist Fellowship by the Native Arts & Cultures Foundation, and the Missouri Review Peden Prize. Her fiction has appeared in The Paris Review , Virginia Quarterly Review , The Missouri Review , and the anthology Forty Stories: New Writing from Harper Perennial , among other places. Grove will be bringing Kelli Jo Ford to Winter Institute. Blurbs from Louise Erdrich, Isabella Hammad, Terese Marie Mailhot, and David Treuer are forthcoming. Details ISBN0802149138 Language English Year 2021 ISBN-10 0802149138 ISBN-13 9780802149138 Format Paperback Author Kelli Jo Ford Pages 304 Publisher Black Cat Imprint Black Cat Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States Publication Date 2021-07-20 AU Release Date 2021-07-20 NZ Release Date 2021-07-20 US Release Date 2021-07-20 UK Release Date 2021-07-20 DEWEY 813.6 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:132795303;
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