Summary
Tiffany McDaniel: Beti
"Beti" is a beautiful novel set on the rolling slopes of the Appalachian Mountains, about a girl and the family secrets that will follow her for the rest of her life.
"A girl grows up under the blade of a knife."
This is how the story of Betty Carpenter begins. Born in Tuba in 1954, to a white woman and a Cherokee father, Betty is the sixth of eight children. Her upbringing in the small town of Breathed, Ohio is marked by her father's stories that make the world bearable and the reality that persistently destroys it. Faced with everything she witnesses - all the horrors of her own family's past and present, unsaid things that are passed down from generation to generation - Betty finds a way out: she starts writing.
"Beti" is a novel about what shapes us - and what can save us.
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