Betty and The Summer That Melted Everything, both by Tiffany McDaniel
Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver
Where The Crawdads Sing, Delia Owens
Fried Green Tomatoes, Fanny Flagg
Revelator, Daryl Gregory
I realize that these may spread across genres a bit, so I’ll explain; I’m looking for books on southern/appalachian living with a raw take on extreme poverty, generational trauma, and certain stigmas and barriers that people of these societies face.
Emotional, dark, philosophical, lyrical. Blunt or saturated with metaphor, I can appreciate both.
Basically something that will not pull, but drag me in and hold on long after I’ve finished and shelved it.
by InvisibleLikeViolet