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Heather
Jul 22, 2013 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: adult, book-club, fiction
I found this to be solidly good but nothing super special. It had good characters and felt very realistic to me, and the writing was good. However, it also felt like other coming-of-age and abuse-related stories to me. It felt worth reading and I appreciated it - it just didn't feel groundbreaking.

8/28 update: I am upgrading this to 4 stars after book club discussion. I think I happen to have read several other very good books that are similar to this one, but decided after we discussed its qua ...more
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Charlene
Mar 29, 2019 rated it really liked it
I read this for a community book club/lecture program and while it is a difficult book to describe and talk about, I am very glad that I read it.
A "white trash" family living in Greenville, SC, on the edge of Appalachia in the 1950s, it tells the story of "Bone", Anney's illegitimate daughter. Anney is the youngest of a large and very close family, barely 15 when baby is born. Anney's brothers are likeable men but they drink a lot, like to get in fights, and can't/won't hold a steady job so th ...more
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Heather
Mar 05, 2007 rated it really liked it
Alex
Mar 15, 2007 marked it as to-read
Stephanie
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Jessica
Apr 11, 2007 rated it it was amazing
Shelves: greatreads
Kristi Marshae
Apr 16, 2007 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
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Tarra
May 17, 2007 rated it really liked it
Sara
Aug 05, 2007 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
angeleen
Aug 22, 2007 rated it really liked it
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Tiff
Feb 16, 2008 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Terri
Apr 03, 2008 rated it really liked it
Melissa
Jan 11, 2009 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: gloomy, fiction
Isabel
Jun 15, 2009 rated it liked it  ·  review of another edition
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Nita
Aug 05, 2009 marked it as to-read
Meara
Mar 12, 2010 rated it it was ok  ·  review of another edition
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May 18, 2010 marked it as to-read
Kim
Jan 08, 2014 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Clarke
Apr 21, 2014 marked it as to-read
Leah
Aug 24, 2014 rated it really liked it
Brenna
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Rachel
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Sara
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shannon
Jul 30, 2020 rated it it was amazing
Elizabeth
Jun 22, 2021 marked it as to-read
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