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Betty: The International Bestseller

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I think it is important to say that this is own voices in a way. It talks about the girl who is Cherokee (her father was Cherokee and mother was white). McDaniel: It does seem to be a color I write a lot about. It seems to be something that’s following me. When I look at the Breathed universe and these characters, it’s often shaded in yellow. Maybe it has some personal connections. Or maybe it’s because yellow is a color we see in flames. In The Summer That Melted Everything and in Betty, there’s quite a bit of burning going on. Not just in the literal sense; there’s this sort of burning in violence and abuse. McDaniel: I’m very fair-skinned, so it’s important to separate my experiences from those of my mother and grandfather. My own experiences haven’t had that sort of violence attached to them. I don’t know what it’s like to experience racism. I came of age in predominantly white communities, so I fit in. Mom really struggled. Growing up, people would ask if she was my real mother because of the difference in our skin colors.

This novel is inspired by my mother Betty’s life and I couldn’t have asked to be raised by a better woman. I am inspired daily by her intelligence, her creativity, her determination, and her strength. The poem ‘My Broken Home,’ at the beginning of the novel, was written by her. And when I read the lines, ‘you give me a wall / and I’ll give you hole,’ I understood that she was finally breaking down the walls and freeing everything behind them. Mom is so thrilled to see the book out on the shelf. And to all you readers, she thanks you dearly for reading this story. I hope in these photos you see not only her beauty on the outside, but her beauty within. May Betty the novel and Betty the person inspire and empower girls like her to dare to dream and never give up. He’s a deeply caring man, one who is invested in his children’s life and education, who has no expectations of them, except to become what they want. Sons or daughters, it doesn’t matter. Intelligent, troubled, impaired or shallow, he loves them equally and is the real glue of the family. course, in this case, it would be a girl—there are so many ways a girl can hurt. and if A girl comes of age against the knife isn’t just begging to be tattooed across all the clavicles of lilith fair, i don’t know what is.] Tiffany McDaniel takes her time here as she paints us a vivid picture of the stories Landan shares with Betty and his ways. The story is rich in the everyday life of the characters that is as bold as it is normal. At times it did feel a bit much for me, making the book feel longer than it needed to be and at times, I lost some focus.Betty is our narrator and she tells us her family’s story from 1909, her father’s birth to 1973, the year he died. Her parents were dirt poor and after a few years of moving around, they settled in an abandoned house lent by a friend in Breathed, Ohio. It was Leland’s hometown. They lived off the land, off the medicine Landon could concoct and off odd jobs. They were dirt-poor. I’ve been around people who are homophobic and I recognise the language they use, the attitudes they have,” she says. “But you can infuse these experiences in the characters, while keeping your personal feelings out of it.” She had lived her life to the point of being given away, her legs too weak to run, her eyes no longer able to see a world beyond the coal cave she was forced to spend her life in. And yet, now she could feel the wind in her mane. She was not too dead for this small kindness that delivered her from a past of hell to a moment she could believe she was free enough to gallop as she wished.

Mamaw Alka spoke of how her own mother had carried her to the abuse she endured. Mamaw didn’t tell anyone about her abuse when she was a little girl, because her mother and her father were involved, and she believed it was what happened in every family. But if there had been an open discussion about these things when she was a child, she would have known that’s not the case. So we speak and write about these horrors with the hope that it inspires other abuse victims to share their stories. And with the hope that speaking about these things openly will save another from the same fate. mcdaniel has excellent control of the narrative, handling foreshadowing and discovery like a boss, and making you care about (almost) every member of this family, even at their least sympathetic.

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When I took a step forward, the hands took it with me. I realized then that the whole time I thought I’d been walking alone, my father had been with me. Supportin’ me. Steadyin’ me. Protectin’ me, best he could. I knew I had to be strong enough to stand on my own two feet. I had to step out of my father’s hands and pull myself up out of the mud. I thought I would be scared to walk the rest of my life without him, but I know I’ll never really be without him because each step I take, I see his handprints in the footprints I leave behind.” Perhaps in this picture she is on the verge of imagining a different future. At the very least, a place different than the hell she had come from. It was such a pleasure reading about him. Everything he taught his kids, his stories. I just- *sniffles* – love him so much. Some characters I hated with all my guts (if you know, you know 👀). And others I loved with all my heart: first and foremost being Landon, Betty’s dad. be it in the woods or in their house: ( sometimes the story had a childlike fairytale ‘feel’)... but with the devastations - it’s not a child’s book)

In this atmospheric Appalachian Gothic, a poet and novelist draws on a string of actual unsolved murders in her native Ohio to capture what goes horribly wrong when women don’t fit a customary victim profile... McDaniel artfully evokes each facet of their common humanity, the sinuous landscape, and defiant community in the face of evil." McDaniel doesn’t really know herself: “Oh, Sal is a mystery even to me. He’s a contradiction, an old soul in a young body. I have my theories, but I don’t want to spoil it. There are some certainties about where he’s come from and who he is, so I think there is a point somewhere where those two identities merge.” As McDaniel braced for more rejections, St Martins made an offer. Her family cried when they found out. “I was still frightened to believe too much in it. My mum was like ‘Aren’t you excited?’” She makes a face. “I’d been close before, so I didn’t feel safe until two years later when the book was on the shelf.” Stephanie Powell Watts, bestselling author of N o One Is Coming to Save Usand We Are Taking Only What We NeedFunny how the night makes everything so spooky,” she said as a gust of wind came and seemed to rattle the ground.

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