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008			200113s2020 nyu 000 1 eng d
020			_a9780062913265
040			_cAJM
043			_an-us-tx
100	1		_aWetmore, Elizabeth, _eauthor. _916035
245	1	0	_aValentine / _cElizabeth Wetmore.
264		1	_aNew York : _bHarper, _c2020.
300			_a308 pages ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
520			_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.
650		0	_aWomen _xViolence against _vFiction. _910202
650		0	_aSmall cities _zTexas _vFiction. _916036
650		0	_aOil industries _zTexas _vFiction. _916037
650		0	_aRace relations _vFiction. _912093
650		7	_aWomen. _2homoit
650		7	_aGender identity. _2homoit _913153
651		0	_aOdessa (Tex.) _vFiction. _916038
651		0	_aTexas _vFiction. _913022
907			_a.b166028137
942			_2ddc _cBOOK
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