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It's 2008, and Sweet Kirkendall's life is unraveling: her father is in jail for harboring undocumented Mexicans, her husband is away working, her young son is turning into a bully, she's a full-time caretaker for an invalid elderly family member, and now Sweet has to take in her orphaned ten-year-old nephew, Dustin, because his grandpa has been jailed. A contemporary everywoman, Sweet struggles to hold her family together under pressures from within and without. She has little money, no help, and surely no time to truck with current political issues--until they come roaring into her life via a new state immigration law, a fractured family, a lost child, an ambitious legislator, a grandstanding sheriff, a niece in desperate need of help, and the national news media camped on her doorstep.
In a novel that tackles hot-button subjects--immigration, religion, civil rights, small-town politics, and the everyday struggles of working families--Rilla Askew vividly weaves together an authentic and compelling narrative with grace and humor.
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- Title Kind of Kin
- Author Rilla Askew
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 432
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Ecco Press
- Date 2014-01-21
- ISBN 9780062198808 / 0062198807
- Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
- Dimensions 8.1 x 5.32 x 1.04 in (20.57 x 13.51 x 2.64 cm)
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- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Topical: Family
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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- New York Times Book Review, 02/16/2014, Page 28
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