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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