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GodPretty in the Tobacco Field

By: Kim Michele Richardson
Narrated by: Katie Schorr
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Atmospheric and searingly honest, GodPretty in the Tobacco Field is Coal Miner's Daughter meets Winter's Bone in a gripping tale of tender love and loss.

Nameless, Kentucky, in 1969 is a hardscrabble community where jobs are few and poverty is a simple fact - just like the hot Appalachian breeze or the pests that can wipe out a tobacco field in days. RubyLyn Bishop is luckier than some. Her God-fearing uncle, Gunnar, has a short fuse and high expectations, but he's given her a good home ever since she was orphaned at the age of five. Yet now, a month shy of her 16th birthday, RubyLyn itches for more.

Maybe it's something to do with the paper fortune-tellers RubyLyn has been making for townsfolk, each covered with beautifully wrought, prophetic drawings. Or perhaps it's because of Rainey Ford, an African American neighbor who works alongside her in the tobacco field and with whom she has a kinship despite her uncle's worrisome shadow and the town's disapproval. RubyLyn's predictions are just wishful thinking, not magic at all, but through them she's imagining life as it could be, away from the prejudice and hardship that ripple through Nameless.

©2016 Kim Michele Richardson (P)2016 Blackstone Audio, Inc. Coming of Age Family Life Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Tobacco Smoking Tear-jerking Feel-Good
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set in the 60s or eRly seventies the story is one of the white poor and their attitudes to race in the tobacco fields where life is hard for everyone.

a page turner

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Loved the narration, the eye opening descriptions and the storyline. it was a very moving story

Very good listen!

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I really enjoyed this book .Delightfully read. a story of humour, hardship and life.

Lovely listen

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I have only recently realised that a huge number of titles are available to me, included with my membership so, effectively, “free” so I started browsing the list. This book was among those selected by audible based on my recent purchases. Normally I am very sceptical about that method of choosing anything as I don’t want to end up reading/listening to the same sort of thing over and over again, but I was drawn to this and was not put off, as I so often am, by the narrator’s voice when I listened to the sample.
I am so pleased that I decided to listen to this! It is a wonderful, if at times harsh, story. The characters are very finely drawn and the writing is so exquisite I could clearly see, in my mind’s eye, everything that was being described as if it were a film in front of me. Well, the often say that radio has the best pictures! The narration was excellent too.
I can’t think of a single negative thing to say about this book. I imagine it was suggested because I have recently listened to “Where the Crawdads Sing” by Delia Owens, which was utterly brilliant, and I would say that this book can sit right up I there alongside it.
I thoroughly recommend giving it a try.

A fabulous book

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Another thought provoking book by the author. I preferred liars bench but still a great book. I’ll be looking for more books from KMR and hoping she writes more. It’s shocking how not that long ago, people were treated so badly for just being black. Also how the girls and women were treated.

Beautifully written

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