Name: Young God
ISBN: 9780374534233

Katherine Faw Morris

"A spare, stylized outlaw tale of a thirteen-year-old girl in Appalachia who takes over her father's drug dealing business - and an explosion of the rules of literary regionalism and moral convention, pitched as WINTER'S BONE meets Kill Bill"--

A Novel

Young God

Jeannette Ordas

Minimal prose and lots of slash and burn efficiency. Harsh and brutal. I can't decide on what star rating to give this: 2 stars? 3 stars? 4 stars? It's not a pleasant read and the characters are left open and vague but there's something captivating about it that crawls into your brain and disrupts your sleep. I think I'll just stick with the middle.

I.m. ruzz

coming on the heels, for me, of "Fourth of July Creek" this novel felt utterly one dimensional. it's a perhaps novel. perhaps if i read it at some other time. perhaps if the characters learnt something or experienced growth through the novel. perhaps if they had more unique voices--sometimes meshing into one another. perhaps if this was 25 years or more ago, where the "shocking" things that happened in the novel would have still held shock value. perhaps. perhaps.

Young God A Novel

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