Winter's Bone by Daniel WoodrellMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
“Fading light buttered the ridges until shadows licked them clean and they were lost to nightfall.”
Daniel Woodrell's bleak Ozarks tale spins a yarn of poverty, survival and family - it's a crime-thriller but with a twist, the story follows 16 year old Ree as she tries to track down her bail-skipping, meth-cooking father. Ree is a powerful heroine, she's morally good but manages to avoid staying into saccharine territory by keeping her rough edges.
The writing itself is a beautiful, but stark portrayal of rural poverty in America, and reads almost like poetry. It keeps a powerful pace and you really feel every disappointment and beating alongside Ree.
The vivid prose paints the scenery perfectly, a beautiful haven juxtaposed with the darkly delicious meat of the book, the lengths that the poverty stricken residents will go to to survive the harsh wilderness.
I devoured this book and a day, and could have easily flipped the pages back and read it all over again.
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