'Crooked Hallelujah' Sings Of Beauty And Trouble Between Mothers And Daughters
Kelli Jo Ford's novel follows three generations of Cherokee women trying to forge a future in the harsh environment of the 1980s oil boom in Texas — and learning just how difficult that can be.
Kelli Jo Ford's debut novel Crooked Hallelujah follows three generations of Cherokee women trying to forge a future in very harsh environments.
Lula, her daughter Justine and Justine's daughter Reney make lives for themselves, mostly in Oklahoma and Texas, amid the 1980s oil boom. But these Cherokee women find out how difficult it really is.
Ford says her title "just sort of settled in my bones as the right title for this book as I was working through the lives of these women. And I think that 'crooked hallelujah' comes from. The tension between those two things, they clash and they collide. But I just feel like they go together."
