"Kelly J. Ford's novel Cottonmouths captures life in backwoods America like a fish in a frying pan. Ford takes her young, raw, flailing characters and rakes them over the heat of a high-octane plot until their vulnerable insides sizzle on the page."/5(). · "Kelly J. Ford's novel Cottonmouths captures life in backwoods America like a fish in a frying pan. Ford takes her young, raw, flailing characters and rakes them over the heat of a high-octane plot until their vulnerable insides sizzle on the page."— Shelf Awareness "This debut novel from Kelly J. Ford is sensitive yet brutalBrand: Skyhorse. Kelly J. Ford is the author of Cottonmouths, named one of ’s best books of the year by the Los Angeles Review and featured in the “52 Books in 52 Weeks” from the Los Angeles Times. Her work has appeared in Post Road Magazine, Black Heart Magazine, Estimated Reading Time: 2 mins.
Kelly J. Ford's novel Cottonmouths captures life in backwoods America like a fish in a frying pan. Ford takes her young, raw, flailing characters and rakes them over the heat of a high-octane plot until their vulnerable insides sizzle on the page. Kelly J. Ford, Cottonmouths (Skyhorse Publishing). Ford's novel features a lesbian protagonist, yet sexuality is only one facet of her strongly drawn character. Emily suffers from unrequited love, from betrayal, and from a longing for meaning and acceptance. Her struggles, as well as those of her family and community, are universal struggles. Cottonmouths is heartbreaking and beautiful. Kelly J. Ford weaves a mystery that is easily relatable. The relentless pain of unrequited love, returning to your past when you don't want to, desperate actions to escape poverty. It's the familiarity of the themes that makes Cottonmouths a beautiful gut-punch. Read more.
Kelly J. Ford has written a masterful debut that explores the depths of human longing, desire and desperation. Cottonmouths is a true look at the hard dark side of the South, through the underbelly that takes us far from the world we know from being schooled on films like Steel Magnolias. Cottonmouths by Kelly J. Ford. “How’d you get mixed up in all this anyway?”. “Same as you, I suppose.”. “You got student loan debt too?”. My advance apologies for the mess which you are about to receive. The second I first saw Cottonmouths went a lil’ summin’ like so Alas, it was not meant to be and I was immediately. Cottonmouths, venomous water snakes found in the Ozarks, are an apt symbol for Kelly J. Ford’s debut novel about home, longing, desperation, and betrayal. Set in rural Arkansas, Cottonmouths explores the treacherous places where unrequited love can lead, and the consequences of complicity.
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