Cottonwood, Stacy Dean Campbell
Cottonwood, Stacy Dean Campbell
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Cottonwood

Author: Stacy Dean Campbell

Narrator: Stacy Dean Campbell

Unabridged: 4 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/08/2022

Categories: Fiction


Synopsis

In a small Texas town where cotton fields stretch farther than mercy, a boy watches the world he knows begin to crack. His family is already breaking. His mother lost to grief, his father hardened by bitterness, when Esther arrives to work in their home. She brings steadiness, quiet strength, and a way of seeing that challenges everything the boy has been taught. When Esther’s husband, PV, dares to farm his own land, resentment ignites among men who believe some dreams are not meant to be claimed.As whispers turn to threats and the town’s old hatred stirs awake, the boy must confront the violence beneath respectability and the choices that shape who we become when cruelty is normalized.Cottonwood is a raw and deeply human novel about race, memory, and the slow birth of conscience, told in a voice steeped in the heat, dust, and moral weight of the American South.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Pam on April 30, 2013

To compare this to the cockroach-from-space District 9 movie doesn't begin to do it justice. But that's a great movie, so it's a start. This romantic sci-fier is a beautifully-crafted apartheid story, depicting the segregation of aliens and humans on Earth. There are some political and didactic unde......more

Goodreads review by Sophia on March 24, 2020

"Please, I just want to go home!" The bug appearance is the least sympathetic the aliens could ever have. Think of the “starship troopers”, the most famous military science fiction action films. There, “The Bugs” are an extraterrestrial race that wants to kill the brave soldiers, to eat their brains......more

Goodreads review by Denisa on January 10, 2019

Love love loved it! This is officially going in my Favourites shelt (never thought I'd say something like this about a SF book, lol). What can I say that the others haven't already said? It's catchy, I couldn't put it down. I ate, slept and went to work with this book! I cried and laughed and cried and......more