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Summary In West Mills DeShawn Charles Winslow Ú 5 Free read Read & Download ↠ PDF, eBook or Kindle ePUB free Ú DeShawn Charles Winslow For readers of The Twelve Tribes of Hattie and The Turner House an intimately told story about a woman living by her own rules and the rural community that struggles to understand herAzalea “Knot” Centre is determined to live life as she pleases Let the people of West Mills say what they will; the neighbors’ gossip won’t keep Knot from what she loves best cheap moonshine nineteenth century literature and the company of men And yet Knot is starting to learn th. Following the lives of a group of people in North Carolina West Mills the book opens with a young woman telling her boyfriend to get out Meet Azalea nicknamed Knot a hard drinking hard loving woman who wants to live her life her way Took a while for me to warm up to her I definitely don t approve of many things she does but by books end despite her abrasivesness she won me over The book takes place over four decades in this black community set in the 1940s a time when unwed pregnancies were looked down on When a family disowns one there is no other choice but to live alone or to make a new family from the friends one has The other residents all have their own problems but I came to pretty much like all of them The characters have many secrets secrets we know and others know but not the one to which the secret applies That creates the tension in the story and between the charactersAs Knot says No secrets The longer they re kept the hurt they cause when they re set freeThere is plenty of hurt here but support and friendship loving and forgiveness as well A debut novel with a great deal of pathos and passion Reminded me of a young Hurston or Morrison ARC from Bloomsbury Publishing and Netgalley Dangerous Melody Treasure Seekers #2 yet Knot is starting to learn th. Following the lives of a group of people in North Carolina West Mills the book opens with a Devoted to Drew young woman telling her boyfriend to get out Meet Azalea nicknamed Knot a hard drinking hard loving woman who wants to live her life her way Took a while for me to warm up to her I definitely don t approve of many things she does but by books end despite her abrasivesness she won me over The book takes place over four decades in this black community set in the 1940s a time when unwed pregnancies were looked down on When a family disowns one there is no other choice but to live alone or to make a new family from the friends one has The other residents all have their own problems but I came to pretty much like all of them The characters have many secrets secrets we know and others know but not the one to which the secret applies That creates the tension in the story and between the charactersAs Knot says No secrets The longer they re kept the hurt they cause when they re set freeThere is plenty of hurt here but support and friendship loving and forgiveness as well A debut novel with a great deal of pathos and passion Reminded me of a
Summary In West Mills
Summary In West Mills DeShawn Charles Winslow Ú 5 Free read Read & Download ↠ PDF, eBook or Kindle ePUB free Ú DeShawn Charles Winslow At her freedom comes at a high price Alone in her one room shack ostracized from her relatives and cut off from her hometown Knot turns to her neighbor Otis Lee Loving in search of some semblance of family and home Otis Lee is eager to help A lifelong fixer Otis Lee is determined to steer his friends and family away from decisions that will cause them heartache and ridicule After his failed attempt as a teenager to help his older sister Otis Lee discovers a possible. I loved the heartfelt debut In West Mills by De Shawn Charles Winslow In this charming story about an African American family in North Carolina spanning from the 1940s 1987 and the difficult struggles and complexities of love we meet Knot She has an unconventional lifestyle always reveling in her freedomREAD MORE AT Book Nation by Jen
Read & Download ↠ PDF, eBook or Kindle ePUB free Ú DeShawn Charles Winslow
Summary In West Mills DeShawn Charles Winslow Ú 5 Free read Read & Download ↠ PDF, eBook or Kindle ePUB free Ú DeShawn Charles Winslow Path to redemption in the chaos Knot brings to his doorstep But while he’s busy trying to fix Knot’s life Otis Lee finds himself powerless to repair the many troubles within his own family as the long buried secrets of his troubled past begin to come to lightSet in an African American community in rural North Carolina from 1941 to 1987 In West Mills is a magnificent big hearted small town story about family friendship storytelling and the redemptive power of love. De Shawn Charles Winslow s debut novel In West Mills spans from 1941 to 1987 twenty six year old Ornery Azalea aka knot moves to a small black community in West Mills North Carolina to get away from her family and to keep her drinking her over love of moonshine on the lo Knot is living her best life with booze and books Lol Her male best friend Otis Lee lives next door with his Gossip ueen wife Pep Otis is such a sweet and loving person He definitely keeps knot grounded This novel isn t just a story of Knot but all those in the West Mills Community I have a love hate relationship for Knot she is stubborn but lives by her own rules This was such a great read filled with laughter love community friendship and secretsI originally gave this book 4 stars but after some thought I see no reason why 5 out 5 isn t fitting This is the perfect book to add to your summer reading listThank you Bloomsbury Publishing partner for gifting me this copy