Book Club: Crooked Hallelujah

Join us for a virtual or in-person discussion of Crooked Hallelujah by Kelli Jo Ford (Cherokee Nation).

Crooked Hallelujah tells the stories of Justine, a mixed-blood Cherokee woman and her daughter, Reney, as they move from Eastern Oklahoma’s Indian Country in the hopes of starting a new, more stable life in Texas amid the oil bust of the 1980s. However, life in Texas isn’t easy and Reney feels unmoored from her family in Indian Country.

Against the vivid backdrop of the Red River, we see their struggle to survive in a world of unreliable men and near-Biblical natural forces, like wildfires and tornadoes intent on stripping away their connections to one another and their very ideas of home.

In lush and empathic prose, Kelli Jo Ford depicts what this family of proud, stubborn, Cherokee women sacrifices for those they love, amid larger forces of history, religion, class and culture. This is a big-hearted and ambitious novel of the powerful bonds between mothers and daughters by an exquisite and rare new talent.

In-person Book Club will meet for lunch in The Learning Center Tuesday, August 26 at 12:30 p.m.

Book Club will meet virtually to discuss the book on Thursday, August 28 at 1:00 p.m.

The GLT Book Club is open to all Tribal Citizens, GLT Staff members and members of the community.

Questions?

Contact the Tribal Librarian at karen.bos@glt-nsn.gov.