pickLast year when I pulled over on the side of the road to get a close look at what I now know is Rosa laegivata (Cherokee Rose), I was stunned by its beauty and that day learned the tragic story it came to be named after: the forced removal of the Cherokee peoplx in Georgia by Congress in 1838. Through that search, I found this book and knew I had to read it. This story touched me and brought up questions for my own ancestors—my mother‘s side of⬇️
Very happy about my haul of second-hand books:
The Pear Field (tagged)
Papa, maman écoutez-moi vraiment (parenting/child psychology)
Austral (Costarican author)
Le héro qui pissait dans son froc (Vietnamese short story anthology)
pickWent into my favorite used bookshop looking for Deadwood, but came out with a copy of Pete Dexter's other masterpiece. A pitch-perfect illustration of small-town dynamics and repression, and a powerful warning of what happens when you allow evil to linger too long unchecked. Paris Trout is one of the more disturbing characters in fiction, a perfect embodiment of a certain type of paranoid rage that seems to exist everywhere now.
Three of my fav coming of age. #TLT #ThreeListThursday
Play along, Littens! Thanks for the tag @dabbe
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