Sugar Run : A Novel (Paperback)

from MM_Jones

The author creates a vivid cast of characters, but I found them to be unlikable and self-destructive. Drugs, alcohol, child endangerment, fracking, Appalachian poverty. Perhaps an original concept, but wouldn't rate it worth the read.

from cmt100

The book has merit, but I couldn't bear to read it. Almost finished it, but had to put it aside. Unutterably sad.

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The author creates a vivid cast of characters, but I found them to be unlikable and self-destructive. Drugs, alcohol, child endangerment, fracking, Appalachian poverty. Perhaps an original concept, but wouldn't rate it worth the read.

from hubblegal

Jodi McCarty is out of jail, after having spent 18 years imprisoned for manslaughter. She has only two things in mind - rescue her old lover's brother, Ricky, from his abusive father and then go home to the land in West Virginia that her grandmother, Effie, left her. As she sets out to do that, s...

from nancyadair

From the beginning, I had the feeling that things were not going to turn out well for Jodi. After serving eighteen years of a lifetime prison sentence, Jodi is free under supervised release. The jails are overcrowded, and she was only seventeen when convicted of killing her girlfriend Paula. She ...