02288nam a2200349 i 45000010011000000030008000110050017000190080041000360200018000770400008000950430012001031000040001152450036001552640031001913000023002223360026002453370028002713380027002995201171003266500045014976500041015426500043015836500036016266500019016626500036016816510035017176510027017529070016017799420014017959990017018099520112018261105153711MeVbMML20240314151035.0200113s2020    nyu           000 1 eng d  a9780062913265  cAJM  an-us-tx1 aWetmore, Elizabeth,eauthor.91603510aValentine /cElizabeth Wetmore. 1aNew York :bHarper,c2020.  a308 pages ;c24 cm  atextbtxt2rdacontent  aunmediatedbn2rdamedia  avolumebnc2rdacarrier  a"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 Ramírez 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."--Jacket flap. 0aWomenxViolence againstvFiction.910202 0aSmall citieszTexasvFiction.916036 0aOil industrieszTexasvFiction.916037 0aRace relationsvFiction.912093 7aWomen.2homoit 7aGender identity.2homoit913153 0aOdessa (Tex.)vFiction.916038 0aTexasvFiction.913022  a.b166028137  2ddccBOOK  c29377d29377  2ddc4070aABELJbABELJcAFd2024-03-14g26.99l2oWETMp65875r2024-05-15s2024-04-17w2024-03-14yBOOK11