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Dakota (2014)

by Gwen Florio(Favorite Author)

3.67 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

157962362X (ISBN13: 9781579623623)

languge

English

genre

Poetry

publisher

The Permanent Press

series

Lola Wicks

review 1: This is a somewhat roughly written book that takes place in Montana (and going into North Dakota)--the topic is a good one, in that there are really big changes happening in rural Dakotas, what with lots of men working in the oil fields and making a lot of money, and living rough and without their families--so there are all the social breakdowns that occurred in the AMerican West--all the women are maltreated, sometimes raped, but there are lots of prostitutes, and sexual violence. Some of the women selling sex are not willing participants, as is so oftne the case, and this story is about one who gets away but is killed.
review 2: Most sequels are disappointing, pale imitations. Not so with Gwen Florio’s follow-up to her awarding-winning novel Montana. Dakot... morea is a smashingly drawn, dark, icy cold and fast-paced tour de force set in the oil fields of western North Dakota, surprisingly for this reader, the second largest oil producing state in the US. Once again, her main character is the tough-as-nails journalist Lola Wicks, whose years reporting from Afghanistan, where Florio herself worked as a journalist, provides her with an unique perspective on the what she finds in a wild and dangerous boomtown, when she tries to discover what happened to a Blackfeet girl found frozen to death on a Montana reservation. Her investigation among the roughneck bars and deep frozen streets proves to be a hell of a lot more dangerous for her then anything she experienced in the killing fields of Afghanistan. The novel, pervaded by an atmosphere of edgy menace, is peopled with vibrant, larger-than-life characters who you can see, hear and even smell. The author captures the strong sense of moral desolation that exists, as the surge in fracking and shale oil drilling, much as all such extractive booms, rapes both the fabric of the land and the souls of the people. A thoughtful, page turner. less

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