Sweetgirl

  • Autor: Travis Mulhauser
  • Narrador: MacLeod Andrews
  • Editora: HarperCollins USA
  • Duração: 5:58:54
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Sinopse

With the heart, daring, and evocative atmosphere of Winter’s Bone and True Grit, and driven by the raw, whip-smart voice of Percy James, a blistering debut about a fearless sixteen-year old girl whose search for her missing mother leads to an unexpected discovery, and a life or death struggle in the harsh frozen landscape of the Upper Midwest.

As a blizzard bears down, Percy James sets off to find her troubled mother, Carletta. For years, Percy has had to take care of herself and Mama—a woman who’s been unraveling for as long as her daughter can remember. Fearing Carletta is strung out on meth and that she won’t survive the storm, Percy heads for Shelton Potter’s cabin, deep in the woods of Northern Michigan. A two-bit criminal, as incompetent as he his violent, Shelton has been smoking his own cook and grieving the death of his beloved Labrador, Old Bo.

But when Percy arrives, there is no sign of Carletta. Searching the house, she finds Shelton and his girlfriend drugged into oblivion—and a crying baby girl left alone in a freezing room upstairs. From the moment the baby wraps a tiny hand around her finger, Percy knows she must save her—a split-second decision that is the beginning of a dangerous odyssey in which she must battle the elements and evade Shelton and a small band of desperate criminals, hell-bent on getting that baby back.

Knowing she and the child cannot make it alone, Percy seeks help from Carletta’s ex, Portis Dale, who is the closest thing she’s ever had to a father. As the storm breaks and violence erupts, Percy will be forced to confront the haunting nature of her mother’s affliction and finds her own fate tied more and more inextricably to the baby she is determined to save.

Filled with the sweeping sense of cultural and geographic isolation of its setting—the hills of fictional Cutler County in northern Michigan—and told in Percy’s unflinching style, Sweetgirl is an affecting exploration of courage, sacrifice, and the ties that bind—a taut and darkly humorous tour-de-force that is horrifying, tender, and hopeful.

Capítulos

  • 001 Sweetgirl

    Duração: 38s
  • 002 Chapter 01

    Duração: 17min
  • 003 Chapter 02

    Duração: 08min
  • 004 Chapter 03

    Duração: 17min
  • 005 Chapter 04

    Duração: 21min
  • 006 Chapter 05

    Duração: 35min
  • 007 Chapter 06

    Duração: 22min
  • 008 Chapter 07

    Duração: 30min
  • 009 Chapter 08

    Duração: 03min
  • 010 Chapter 09

    Duração: 14min
  • 011 Chapter 10

    Duração: 12min
  • 012 Chapter 11

    Duração: 27min
  • 013 Chapter 12

    Duração: 05min
  • 014 Chapter 13

    Duração: 15min
  • 015 Chapter 14

    Duração: 13min
  • 016 Chapter 15

    Duração: 15min
  • 017 Chapter 16

    Duração: 22min
  • 018 Chapter 17

    Duração: 11min
  • 019 Chapter 18

    Duração: 02min
  • 020 Chapter 19

    Duração: 08min
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