This is a story collection by the Missouri writer Daniel Woodrell, best known for Winter’s Bone, which of course brought Jennifer Lawrence into our lives. I feel like anytime you mention an American Southern writer–and yeah it gets complicated when you’re talking about Missouri, I know–you are compelled to mention what state they’re from. That’s why we all know Faulkner is from Mississippi along with Larry Brown and Eudora Welty; we know that Georgia gave us Flannery O’Connor and Alice Walker; we think of Zora Neale […]
Caution: Damn Good Writing Ahead
The Maid’s Version is a tightly written novel, and at 164 pages, more novella than novel. The cover reveals that Daniel Woodrell also wrote Winter’s Bone. (I didn’t know the film was based upon a novel). After reading this book, I intend to read Winter’s Bone and anything else I can find in the library. Woodrell is a storyteller that economically uses words to the best effect. The story starts in 1965, the narrator is staying with Alma, his grandmother and the maid of the […]