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Valentine : a novel / Elizabeth Wetmore.
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. 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 RamÃrez 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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780062913265 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 0062913263 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 9780063037687
- ISBN: 0063037688
- ISBN: 9780062913272 (paperback)
- Physical Description: 308 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2020.
- Copyright: ©2020
Content descriptions
| General Note: | First Harper Perennial Edition Published 2021. |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Women > Violence against > Fiction. Small cities > Texas > Fiction. Oil industries > Texas > Fiction. Race relations > Fiction. Odessa (Tex.) > Fiction. Texas > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Historical fiction. |
Available copies
- 4 of 4 copies available at Lehigh Valley Library System.
Holds
- 1 current hold with 4 total copies.
Show Only Available Copies
| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bethlehem Coolidge Branch | f (Text) | 33062009764029 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Bethlehem Main Library | f (Text) | 33062009306730 | Adult Fiction | On Display | - |
| Easton Main Library | WETMORE (Text) | 31901004433175 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Easton Palmer Branch | WETMORE (Text) | 31901004781292 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
