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Betty
by Tiffany McDaniel
I'd say this is one of the best books I've ever read, since Zami and Shuggie Bain. Just amazing, breathtaking.
Expect gull on family drama, intricate characters, heartbreaking moments, lots of gazing away in to the distance to digest what you just read.
'Betty' follows the highs and deepest lows of her family, her dad being cherokee has wisdom to pass on and is a wonderful story teller too. He's just lovely, he makes her wings out of leaves, makes healing potions, he tells them all that nature is their church. The family go through trajedy after trajedy, poor and ostracised. Their father rewrites their pain into beautiful stories.
'Dad believed God was in the woods more than he was ever in a building. .. "A tree preaches better than any man can"'.
I felt that everything was understood through the lens of nature. It is also fiercely feminist, focusing on women's experience, mens dominance. It also doesn't overlook women's power and resilience, contrasting their social status with how cherokee women were viewed, where women were deemed especially powerful when menstruating, and had a closer relationship to the earth.
(Do be warned going into this that there are some incredibly difficult content, so familiarise yourself with potential triggers including abuse, incest, and animal death).
Expect gull on family drama, intricate characters, heartbreaking moments, lots of gazing away in to the distance to digest what you just read.
'Betty' follows the highs and deepest lows of her family, her dad being cherokee has wisdom to pass on and is a wonderful story teller too. He's just lovely, he makes her wings out of leaves, makes healing potions, he tells them all that nature is their church. The family go through trajedy after trajedy, poor and ostracised. Their father rewrites their pain into beautiful stories.
'Dad believed God was in the woods more than he was ever in a building. .. "A tree preaches better than any man can"'.
I felt that everything was understood through the lens of nature. It is also fiercely feminist, focusing on women's experience, mens dominance. It also doesn't overlook women's power and resilience, contrasting their social status with how cherokee women were viewed, where women were deemed especially powerful when menstruating, and had a closer relationship to the earth.
(Do be warned going into this that there are some incredibly difficult content, so familiarise yourself with potential triggers including abuse, incest, and animal death).