The Ballad of Dinah Caldwell

De: Kate Brauning

Narrado por: Jean Ann Douglass

Nothing is more dangerous than a girl with nothing left to lose.

Dinah Caldwell has been filling her father's role since he abandoned their family four years ago. She and her grief-stricken mom run their subsistence farm deep in the Ozarks, making sure her younger brother never has to worry. Until the day Gabriel Gates, who owns everyone in Charlotte County, kills her mother to steal her family's well.

Homeless, heartbroken, and alone, Dinah only has a single razor-sharp goal: revenge. And now that Gates has put a 10,000-dollar bounty on her head, she can't trust anyone, but she also can't take down the most powerful man in the mountains by herself.

Her only allies are Kara, Dinah's best friend and secret crush, and Johnny, a young bootlegger who has as much reason to hate Gates as Dinah does. With their help and resources, and maybe even love, she can spark a revolution and set the whole county free - if their combined secrets don't get them all killed first.

©2021 Kate Brauning (P)2021 Tantor

A story of triumph over tragedy.

Rooting for the underdog. A poor, farming community have to live under the thumb of a rich man who has the corrupted law and goons at his beck and call.
Dinah has to find the strength, through grief and hopelessness she vows to fight back.
she has to rally all the friends and neighbors she can to help her rise up and take back thier life and farms. Love, teens growing up too fast. good verse evil.
I personally love how powerful the oppressed came together, how open the dynamic of love was in this book.
great read.