Show me good land
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Published
Camden, Me. : Down East, 2011.
Format
Books
Physical Desc
pages cm.
Status
Plaistow Public Library
FIC HUM
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FIC HUM
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Published
Camden, Me. : Down East, 2011.
Street Date
1104
Language
English
Notes
Description
Show Me Good Land is the debut novel for author Shonna Milliken Humphrey. Likened to work by Carolyn Chute and Cathie Pelletier, Show Me Good Land details four lives, each connected to a rural northern Maine community by the same gruesome murder. Odie Hollander solves the murder while spending time in jail on a domestic violence assault charge. Miles Compton, gay, is a listed sex offender after having a relationship with an underage student. Emmett Pratt manages the local gas station and is accused of killing his aunt. Rhetta Ballou is driving home after leaving town as the teenaged mistress of her high school teacher almost two decades ago.
Show Me Good Land looks hard at constructed social norms, especially those in the confines of an isolated, poor, rural area. Is violence ever justified? Abortion? Underage sex? Underage gay sex? No character is fully good or fully bad, and the pleasure of this book's reading lies in discovering where individual moral lines are drawn.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Humphrey, S. M. (2011). Show me good land . Down East.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Humphrey, Shonna Milliken. 2011. Show Me Good Land. Down East.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Humphrey, Shonna Milliken. Show Me Good Land Down East, 2011.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Humphrey, Shonna Milliken. Show Me Good Land Down East, 2011.
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