Bibliograph

Chokecherry girl, Barbara Meyer Link

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Label

Chokecherry girl, Barbara Meyer Link

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Chokecherry girl

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Barbara Meyer Link

Summary

It's 1958. Racial tension and class disparities have everyone on edge in a small Montana town. Despite their differences, three women of the community become the unlikeliest of friends.BOBBI VERNON is a quirky teen, who will do whatever it takes to drive her teacher's new Chevy convertible. Adding to the already volatile mix, she meets Pretty Weasel, an Indian basketball player, who calls her Chokecherry Girl. She dreams of dating him and wearing his class ring.PATSY OLSON, after two failed marriages, is desperate to get her life back. After opening a beauty shop with a shaky bank loan, she watches Coach Vernon, Bobbi's father, arriving for school each day. Attracted yet wary, she needs the business of the town ladies, including the Coach's wife, Lois.MARY AGNES LONE HILL, an alcoholic Crow Indian who was sent far away to a brutal Indian school as a child, now cleans houses for the town ladies and longs to end her estrangement with her son, Pretty Weasel.These three women are drawn together through an illicit love affair, a stolen car, and a shooting that changes their lives forever

Target audience

adult

Creator