Kelli Jo Ford
Auteur van Crooked Hallelujah
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- Cherokee Nation
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- Kelli Jo Ford is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation. Her debut novel-in-stories Crooked Hallelujah was longlisted for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel, The Story Prize, the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, The Dublin Literary Award, and The Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize. She is the recipient of an NEA Creative Writing Fellowship, The Paris Review's Plimpton Prize, a Creative Capital Award, a Native Arts & Cultures Foundation National Artist Fellowship, an Elizabeth George Foundation Grant, and a Dobie Paisano Fellowship. She teaches writing at the Institute of American Indian Arts.
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Justine and Reney are at the center of the stories, starting with Justine getting pregnant, and then covering several years to Reney as an adult. Some are in third person, some in first person, including one from Justine's father-in-law. The result is an effective character portrayal of multiple people from multiple points of view, telling the story of ordinary lives. It was well done, but I read it for book club and I struggle to think of what we will talk about tomorrow. I suspect I won't remember much about it some months from now.… (meer)