Sugar Run

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On the far side the view was nothing but ridgelines, the craggy silhouettes rising up against the night sky like the body of some dormant god Jodi felt her breath go tight in her chest This road went only one way, it seemed, in under the mountains until you were circled.In 1989, Jodi McCarty is seventeen years old when she s sentenced to life in prison for manslaughter She s released eighteen years later and finds herself at a Greyhound bus stop, reeling from the shock of unexpected freedom Not yet able to return to her lost home in the Appalachian mountains, she goes searching for someone she left behind, but on the way, she meets and falls in love with Miranda, a troubled young mother Together, they try to make a fresh start, but is that even possible in a town that refuses to change Set within the charged insularity of rural West Virginia, Sugar Run is a searing and gritty debut about making a run for another life. Best Download Sugar Run by Mesha Maren For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr 3.5 stars.There are some books which fill you with a sense of foreboding the minute you start reading them, sort of the way you may be poised to put your hands over your eyes when watching a scary movie you know something bad will happen, but you just don t know when.That s the way I felt while reading Mesha Maren s Sugar Run This novel about a woman s quest for a new beginning even though she quickly falls into all of her old habits isn t scary, but you can just feel that things could fall o 3.5 stars.There are some books which fill you with a sense of foreboding the minute you start reading them, sort of the way you may be poised to put your hands over your eyes when watching a scary movie you know something bad will happen, but you just don t know when.That s the way I felt while reading Mesha Maren s Sugar Run This novel about a woman s quest for a new beginning even though she quickly falls into all of her old habits isn t scary, but you can just feel that things could fall off the rails at any minute, and you wish it wouldn t Or at least I wished it ...3.75 Stars rounded up.There are times, when the cards are stacked against you Be it of your own making or simply the cut of the deck on any given day In Sugar Run try as hard as she might, Jodi just can t catch a break.Seventeen years ago, in 1989, Jodi was arrested for manslaughter She spent eighteen years in prison and honestly never imagined she d get out Yet here she is Her destination is her Grandmother s Effie s cabin in West Virginia which her Grandmother left to Jodi as a l 3.75 Stars rounded up.There are times, when the cards are stacked against you Be it of your own making or simply the cut of the deck on any given day In Sugar Run try as hard as she might, Jodi just can t catch a break.Seventeen years ago, in 1989, Jodi was arrested for manslaughter She spent eighteen years in prison and honestly never imagined she d get out Yet here she is Her destination is her Grandmother s Effie s cabin in West Virginia which her Grandmother left to Jodi as a little girl Jodi has always imagined Effie s c...4.5 Stars I was raised up from tinychildhood in those purple hills,right slam on the brink of language Denis JohnsonThe women in the prison where Jodi is in residence have no idea what the landscape outside looked like, except the prison yard As this story begins, Jodi is in the process of being released after eighteen years at Jaxton, she d never known that there were mountains all aroundFrom the exercise yard she had seen only what was straight above, a sometimes gray...Good Lort I am finally done with this book This is an actual picture of me for the last 2 months reading it That s right Two months.So you have Jodi who is just getting out of prison She was convicted of manslaughter and has finally got the freedom call She keeps thinking about some land she supposedly has in West Virginia..so she is going to head towards that Do I sound bored WELL I AM..that s all this book is going to get But firstright after she is released from prison she i Good Lort I am finally done with this book This is an actual picture of me for the last 2 months reading it That s right Two months.So you have Jodi who is just getting out of prison She was convicted of manslaughter and has finally got the freedom call She keeps thinking about some land she supposedly has in West Virginia..so she is going to head towards that Do I sound bored WELL I AM..that s all this book is going to get But firstright after she...Jodi Mccarty is 35 years old and has just been released from prison She was incarcerated for seventeen years after shooting her girlfriend in a jealous rage Her plan is to head back to West Virginia where she will live on her grandmother s land On her journey, she makes a stop in Georgia to help her late girlfriend s brother who grew up in an abusive home There, she unexpectedly meets and quickly falls for a twenty five year old drug addict named Miranda who is struggling to raise three youn Jodi Mccarty is 35 years old and has just been released from prison She was incarcerated for seventeen years after shooting her girlfriend in a jealous rage Her plan is to head back to West Virginia where she will live on her grandmother s land On her journey, she makes a stop in Georgia to help her late girlfriend s brother who grew up in an abusive home There, she unexpectedly meets and quickly falls for a twenty five year old drug addict named Miranda who is struggling to raise three you...I usually try to work through my galleys in the order I receive them, so I started reading SUGAR RUN when I found myself awake in the middle of the night and unable to go back to sleep When I read the first few pages and realized that this was a lyrical novel with lovely prose and a loose plot about a woman who s just been released from prison, I thought maybe I should put it down and read something else But I ended up reading it for a couple of hours in the middle of the night, and for days a I usually try to work through my galleys in the order I receive them, so I started reading SUGAR RUN when I found myself awake in the middle of the night and unable to go back to sleep When I read the first few pages and realized that this was a lyrical novel with lovely prose and a loose plot about a woman who s just been released from prison, I thought maybe I should put it down and read someth...3 stars Thank you to NetGalley and Algonquin Books for the chance to read and review this ARC Publication date January 8, 2019 I am not sure exactly what it was that I was expecting or waiting for in this book, but it never seemed to materialize For a debut novel there was plenty of action in the story, some good character development and a plausible plot, but for me it just missed the mark The story of a young Appalachian girl imprisoned for manslaughter Once released she headed home to cl 3 stars Thank you to NetGalley and Algonquin Books for the chance to read and review this ARC Publication date January 8, 2019 I am not sure exactly what it was that I was expecting or waiting for in this book, but it never seemed to materialize For a debut novel there was plenty of action in the story, some good character development and a plausible plot, but for me it just missed the mark ...From the beginning, I had the feeling that things were not going to turn out well for Jodi.After serving eighteen years of a lifetime prison sentence, Jodi is free under supervised release The jails are overcrowded, and she was only seventeen when convicted of killing her girlfriend Paula She is given a bus ticket and sent into the world to report to her home district parole officer.But Jodi instead takes a bus in the other direction, to save Paula s younger brother Ricky from their abusive fa From the beginning, I had the feeling that things were not going to turn out well for Jodi.After serving eighteen years of a lifetime prison sentence, Jodi is free under supervised relea...Jodi McCarty is out of jail, after having spent 18 years imprisoned for manslaughter She has only two things in mind rescue her old lover s brother, Ricky, from his abusive father and then go home to the land in West Virginia that her grandmother, Effie, left her As she sets out to do that, she meets and falls in love with Miranda Miranda has her own problems She s estra...Sugar Run by Mesha Maren is her debut novel about thirty five year old Jodi McCarty, released from Jaxton Prison after serving eighteen years Jodi isn t placed on a reentry program just supervised release with scheduled check ins with a parole officer As Jodi leaves the prison where she s been an inmate for the last eighteen years, she sees mountains and realizes that she never knew they existed, having seen only the flatness of her exercise yard This is a very deep foreshadowing by the au Sugar Run by Mesha Maren is her debut novel about thirty five year old Jodi McCarty, released from Jaxton Prison after serving eighteen years Jodi isn t placed on a reentry program just supervised release with scheduled check ins with a parole officer As Jodi leaves the prison where she s been an inmate for the last eighteen years, she sees mountains and realiz...

Sugar Run
  • English
  • 25 February 2018
  • Hardcover
  • 320 pages
  • 1616206217
  • Mesha Maren
  • Sugar Run