![]() ![]() Horror and revenge tales are emphatically not my thing, but for someone who isn’t a yellow-bellied chicken with a joy fetish, I could see this being a good read. It’s reminiscent of 70s and 80s YA– lots of long character studies, a little messy around the edges, with genuinely creepy elements that pop up seemingly out of nowhere and change everything. This is a coming-of-age story with some heavy horror elements, written in a style you don’t often see now. ![]() ![]() A few summer days spent in the woods with their hoodoo-practicing aunt Teddy turn into revelation, tragedy, and bloody revenge, and the girls’ lives lead in very different directions when all is said and done. It’s like if Lovecraft Country was about pre-teen girls.Īll comparisons aside, this is a story of three sisters – PeeWee, Ann and Betty – in segregated Louisiana. It reminds me of the far-out fests that always reviewing. It’s like if Mildred D Taylor’s classic Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry was a supernatural horror. While I was reading, tendrils of the story dug their way into my brain and wrapped themselves around totally unrelated thoughts, creating some pretty weird comparisons. Something about Rootwork feels like it’s from another era. (Full disclosure: Tracy and I were in the same master class at Under The Volcano this January, and she graciously sent me an ARC of this book in exchange for a fair review.) (Get more information about this book here.) ![]()
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