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A review by lauriel13
Sing Her Down by Ivy Pochoda
2.0
This was like a 2 1/2 for me. I can’t really say I liked it as a whole but I liked parts of it.
Starts off in a women’s prison in Arizona during Covid. We read chapters from the points of view of three prisoners- Florida seems to be a rich Cali girl who turned herself in to get a plea deal to being an accomplice to an arson which people died in, Dios who everyone seems to be a bit scared of, is smart but grew up most likely poor and got scholarships to get her into good schools along the way, she hurt one of the rich kids at school and here she is, and Kace who kind of is the overall narrator, she kicks things off to set up the book and she also ends the book, she hears voices of the women who’ve died or left prison. We get to feel the ins and outs of prison life.
Some of the prisoners are released due to Covid. Florida and Dios being two of them. They have to quarantine for 2 weeks at a nearby motel. Florida wants to get back to Los Angeles. After a couple days without food, she ventures out and happens upon a ghost bus taking people to LA. She hops on and guess who else does, Dios.
Turns out Dios is pretty obsessed with Florida. It’s creepy. More crimes are committed. Once in LA we now also get chapters in the view of Lobos, a petite female cop who was abused by her husband and now has a restraining order against him. I liked her chapters the most.
The book is a glimpse into the violence women can do and women can endure.
Starts off in a women’s prison in Arizona during Covid. We read chapters from the points of view of three prisoners- Florida seems to be a rich Cali girl who turned herself in to get a plea deal to being an accomplice to an arson which people died in, Dios who everyone seems to be a bit scared of, is smart but grew up most likely poor and got scholarships to get her into good schools along the way, she hurt one of the rich kids at school and here she is, and Kace who kind of is the overall narrator, she kicks things off to set up the book and she also ends the book, she hears voices of the women who’ve died or left prison. We get to feel the ins and outs of prison life.
Some of the prisoners are released due to Covid. Florida and Dios being two of them. They have to quarantine for 2 weeks at a nearby motel. Florida wants to get back to Los Angeles. After a couple days without food, she ventures out and happens upon a ghost bus taking people to LA. She hops on and guess who else does, Dios.
Turns out Dios is pretty obsessed with Florida. It’s creepy. More crimes are committed. Once in LA we now also get chapters in the view of Lobos, a petite female cop who was abused by her husband and now has a restraining order against him. I liked her chapters the most.
The book is a glimpse into the violence women can do and women can endure.