Stormy Weather: A Novel

Stormy Weather: A Novel
by Paulette Jiles

Stormy Weather: A Novel
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Author: Paulette Jiles
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2007-05-01
ISBN: 0060537329
Number of pages: 352
Publisher: William Morrow

Book Reviews of Stormy Weather: A Novel

Book Review: A few loose ends...
Summary: 3 Stars

In general I liked the story, but I think the description of the book is a little misleading.

From reading the description, I believed there would have been more about Jack's death, but once it happened, it was only referred to in passing on a few occasions. A loose end that was never really dealt with by the author. Also, I expected more to be written about Smoky Joe and horse racing in general than there actually was.

The characters were interesting, although some were a bit odd and I'm quite sure why some of them were written into the story, but Jeanine is a great heroine and I enjoyed her story.

A nice read but could have been better.

Summary of Stormy Weather: A Novel

From Paulette Jiles, the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Enemy Women, comes a poignant and unforgettable story of hardship, sacrifice, and strength in a tragic time-and of a desperate dream born of an undying faith in the arrival of a better day

Oil is king of East Texas during the darkest years of the Great Depression. The Stoddard girls-responsible Mayme, whip-smart tomboy Jeanine, and bookish Bea-know no life but an itinerant one, trailing their father from town to town as he searches for work on the pipelines and derricks; that is, when he's not spending his meager earnings at gambling joints, race tracks, and dance halls. And in every small town in which the windblown family settles, mother Elizabeth does her level best to make each sparse, temporary house they inhabit a home.

But the fall of 1937 ushers in a year of devastating drought and dust storms, and the family's fortunes sink further than they ever anticipated when a questionable "accident" leaves Elizabeth and her girls alone to confront the cruelest hardships of these hardest of times. With no choice left to them, they return to the abandoned family farm.

It is Jeanine, proud and stubborn, who single-mindedly devotes herself to rebuilding the farm and their lives. But hard work and good intentions won't make ends meet or pay the back taxes they owe on their land. In desperation, the Stoddard women place their last hopes for salvation in a wildcat oil well that eats up what little they have left . . . and on the back of late patriarch Jack's one true legacy, a dangerous racehorse named Smoky Joe. And Jeanine, the fatherless "daddy's girl," must decide if she will gamble it all . . . on love.

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