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Valentine by Elizabeth Wetmore Book Summary
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"A thrilling debut that deserves your attention." –Ron Charles, the Washington Post
Written with the haunting emotional power of Elizabeth Strout and Barbara Kingsolver, an astonishing debut novel that explores the lingering effects of a brutal crime on the women of one small Texas oil town in the 1970s, longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and the VCU Cabell First Novel Award.
Mercy is hard in a place like this . . .
It’s February 1976, and Odessa, Texas, stands on the cusp of the next great oil boom. While the town’s men embrace the coming prosperity, its women intimately know and fear the violence that always seems to follow.
In the early hours of the morning after Valentine’s Day, fourteen-year-old Gloria Ramírez appears on the front porch of Mary Rose Whitehead’s ranch house, broken and barely alive. The teenager had been viciously attacked in a nearby oil field—an act of brutality that is tried in the churches and barrooms of Odessa before it can reach a court of law. When justice is evasive, the stage is set for a showdown with potentially devastating consequences.
Valentine is a haunting exploration of the intersections of violence and race, class and region in a story that plumbs the depths of darkness and fear, yet offers a window into beauty and hope. Told through the alternating points of view of indelible characters who burrow deep in the reader’s heart, this fierce, unflinching, and surprisingly tender novel illuminates women’s strength and vulnerability, and reminds us that it is the stories we tell ourselves that keep us alive.
Book Name | Valentine |
Genre | Mysteries & Thrillers |
Author | Elizabeth Wetmore |
Published | 31 March 2020, Tuesday |
Language | English |
E-Book Size | 1.46 MB |
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Valentine. This is a three-dimensional journey into West Texas, deep into the hearts and souls of courageous and (some) despicable Texans. The characters jump off the page, struggling to find meaning in a brilliantly described land.
Valentine. Did not like it at all! Would not recommend.
Heartbreaking and so true.. I cried all the way through the story. The ugliness that was unleashed is still with us today.
Azarel Morales. Azarel24
I haven’t read the book but I had. I haven’t read the book but I had to say something about the fact that only one other person in the world has reviewed this book, I mean like...wow.
Did not care for. I did not care for this book. I felt the author should have developed Glory’s character and story a lot more. I enjoyed reading about the character’s lives but it didn’t tie anything together at all. It was very choppy and difficult to read.
Great historical story about Texans &Mexico. The story begins with a Mexican 14yo girl being raped and abused by a young man. She wakes the following morning and walks 3 miles to a farmhouse. The woman Mary Rose lets her in tell her daughter to call the sheriff Dept and the man who raped Glory shows up demanding that Mary Rose let her come out. Sheriff arrives arrests the man but the town is taking the mans side bc of their bigotry and hatred for Mexicans. It follows the woman Mary Rose to the home she rents in town bc she’s being targeted by the whites for testifying against the man. The neighborhood is full of women who were married too young pregnant and oppressed in this small town. It speaks mostly of the oppression of women and minorities the bigotry and racism that are the hallmark of Odessa Texas and the hypocrisy of their religious beliefs and the pain of being oppressed
In Valentine, Latinos used as props by the European immigrant, again.. This novel begins with a hollow bigoted white-gaze depiction of the aftermath of a raped American girl, whom the immigrants describe as Mexican. From there, it’s all about the folks who see her as an immigrant in her own country. So it’s not about her but about them. Then it ends with her leaving her country, her ancestral lands, to the European immigrant blowhards who raped it all. Yet Another “American dirt” tale, told by yet another European-American, signifying nothing.
A lot left open. The bulk of this book is character building. The characters are great but it lacked an interesting plot. I wanted revenge, or triumph. Something!
What was the point?. The author writes beautifully, but that’s probably the only good thing about this book. The book is full of heartbreak and sadness, and fails to deliver any meaningful plot in my opinion.
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Summary of Valentine by Elizabeth Wetmore
The Valentine book written by Elizabeth Wetmore was published on 31 March 2020, Tuesday in the Mysteries & Thrillers category. A total of 668 readers of the book gave the book 4 points out of 5.
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