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Literary Sojour Author Study: Winters Bone

Woodrell flirts with but doesn't succumb to cliché in his eighth novel, a luminescent portrait of the poor and desperate South that drafts 16-year-old Ree Dolly, blessed with "abrupt green eyes," as its unlikely heroine. Ree, too young to escape the Ozarks by joining the army, cares for her two younger brothers and mentally ill mother after her methamphetamine-cooking father, Jessup, disappears. Recently arrested on drug charges, Jessup bonded out of jail by using the family home as collateral, but with a court date set in one week's time and Jessup nowhere to be found, Ree has to find him dead or alive or the house will be repossessed.

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The Literary Sojourn Author Study is a series of book discussion programs designed to enhance the experience of reading for this year's Literary Sojourn. Participants read and discuss works from each of the featured authors prior to the live event.

Bud Werner Memorial Library's Michelle Dover facilitates the free discussions and the study is limited to 12 participants per meeting. For more information about the Literary Sojourn Author Study, please contact Michelle at mdover@steamboatlibrary.org or (970) 879-0240, ext. 307.

Date: 06/18/2014
Time: 5:30pm - 6:30pm
Place:

Bud Werner Library
Steamboat Springs, CO 80487