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All of Cedar, Oklahoma, is shocked when Bible-believing Bob Brown and his friend, Pastor Jesus Garcia, are tossed in the county jail for hiding a barn-full of Mexicans. Thanks to an ambitious blonde state legislator and her politically shrewd husband, it's a felony to harbor an undocumented immigrant in the Sooner State.  It's bad enough that her Christian daddy is a felon, but now Bob Brown refuses to defend himself, creating a mess of trouble for his daughter, Sweet. She's got enough on her hands caring for her husband's bedridden elderly great-grandfather, and trying to keep her son, Carl Albert in line. Now, she's got her ten-year-old nephew Dustin to worry about, too. A quiet and thoughtful boy, Dustin hasn't had it easy. His mother is dead, his older sister Misty Dawn is looking for her recently deported husband, and Carl Albert beats up on him.



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Rilla Askew

Born and raised in Oklahoma, Askew spent many years living in New York. She is best known for her 2001 seminal novel about the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, FIRE IN BEULAH. Askew has received the American Book Award, the Western Heritage Award, the Oklahoma Book Award, and the Myers Book Award from the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights. She was inducted into the Oklahoma Writers Hall of Fame in 2003 and received the Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award from the Oklahoma Department of Libraries in 2011.In 2009 Askew received the Arts and Letters Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her novel KIND OF KIN, which deals with a fractured family affected by a ruthless new anti-immigration law, was a finalist for the Western Spur Award, the Mountains and Plains Booksellers Award, and was long-listed for the Dublin IMPAC Prize. Askew's most recent book is a collection of creative nonfiction MOST AMERICAN: Notes From A Wounded Place. Kirkus Reviews calls Most American "An eloquently thoughtful memoir in essays." In nine linked works of creative nonfiction, Askew spotlights the complex history of her home state. From the Trail of Tears to the Tulsa Race Massacre to the Murrah Federal Building bombing, Oklahoma appears as a microcosm of our national saga.



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