“The story takes many delightful twists and turns, always described succinctly and colorfully by this narrator, who is irresistible even on days when she's ‘retaining enough water to grow rice in Arizona’. Once there, she befriends inmate and soon-to-be legendary blues singer Lead Belly, who sings his way out (true story)―but only after he makes her promise to free herself from her own prison… Terrified, Miss Dara takes a job at the Imperial State Prison Farm for men. It's 1923 in Midland, Texas, and Miss Dara falls in love with her best friend―who also happens to be a girl. ravishing debut.” - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) A novel of a lesbian coming of age in Depression-era small-town Texas: “The love child of Fannie Flagg and Rita Mae Brown.
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