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Tomato Red

By Megan Abbott & Daniel Woodrell
Tomato Red by Megan Abbott & Daniel Woodrell digital book - Fable

Publisher Description

A sharp and funny addition to Daniel Woodrell's collection of "country noir" novels, featuring anti-hero Sammy Barlach and Jamalee Merridew, her hair tomato red with rage and ambition.

In the Ozarks, what you are is where you are born. If you're born in Venus Holler, you're not much. For Jamalee Merridew, Venus Holler just won't cut it. Jamalee sees her brother Jason, blessed with drop-dead gorgeous looks and the local object of female obsession, as her ticket out of town. But Jason may just be gay, and in the hills and hollows of the Ozarks that is the most dangerous and courageous thing a man could be.

Enter Sammy Barlach, a loser ex-con passing through a tired nowhere on the way to a fresher nowhere. Jamalee thinks Sammy is just the kind of muscle she and Jason need.

49 Reviews

3.5
Smiling Face with Heart-Eyes“This was the first book I've ever took a highlighter to. The way it's written is so stunningly beautiful; I've probably highlighted a quote a page on average. The ending did feel a bit rushed and unsatisfying but it was definitely fitting. Minus half a star for the misogyny as it was uncomfortable at times coming from the main character (even though it was realistic to the sort of man he is, I didn't enjoy reading that aspect of him).”

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