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LOOK UNTO THE LAND IBD

GEORGE ROLLIE ADAMS
BARN LOFT PRESS
08 / 2022
9781733366960
Inglés

Sinopsis

A Riveting Story of Love, Hate, Greed, and Thirst for Revenge in an Oil-Drenched 1920s Southern Boom TownáWhen Henry Grant returns home from WWI, he finds his family decimated by violence, death, and debt. He blames it all on one man and aims to make him pay. áIn 1922, Henry follows the fellow from Indiana to Berrytown in southern Arkansas, site of the nationâÇÖs latest oil boom, a good place to hide and a hard place to search. ItâÇÖs overflowing with lease hounds, roughnecks, drillers, bootleggers, and gamblers. Crime is rampant, and the Ku Klux Klan is gearing up against booze, prostitution, and Black people. áMeanwhile, Mary Dutton, a near-destitute Berrytown widow with a twelve-year-old son, is struggling to survive. She works in a pharmacy where the owners - MaryâÇÖs cousin Eunice and her husband - are forcing her to sell marijuana, cocaine, and heroin under the nose of federal agents.áOtis Leatherwood, a farmer who is MaryâÇÖs uncle and EuniceâÇÖs estranged father, likes moonshine and is unaware of the drug traffic. His problem is with the oil. He believes drilling is ruining the environment, and heâÇÖs willing to risk everything to stop it. Even though his best friend and Black neighbor Isaiah Watson sees it as a means of escaping bigotry in the South. áAs Berrytown grows apace and oil blackens the land, each of them faces life-changing decisions. Read now and follow them as they encounter one surprising turn of events after another.