Literature -- 5 stars
Miranda Crabtree was a child of the bayou when she accompanied her father to a small island in his john boat. They carried a dead infant, born of the wife of a deranged preacher, and the reclusive island midwife/witch who had brought the deformed baby into the world. It was the night Miranda became fatherless and her life changed forever. Surviving into adulthood by ferrying illicit drugs along the bayou on her father's john boat, the same preacher has now made a demand of Miranda that forces her to choose a dangerous path if she wants to protect the witch's secrets and her own. ----- This is not an easy book to read. Ugly, dark, violent, it's like looking into an abyss of hopelessness, a supernatural stew of the worst of poisonous human behavior. Miranda's eventual safety may depend on a dwarf who wants to escape the depravity he has helped create. And yet, somehow, this becomes a book of hope and heroes, a flicker of light at the end of a very long, muck coated, decaying tunnel. Miranda Crabtree is a character to be celebrated.
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