Wow, this book. Wow wow wow.
There were so many times that I had to put the book down and just go, "Oh my. I didn't see that coming."
Set in Green County, Arkansas, Mary Elizabeth Pope's novel The Gods of Green County is about what can happen when "good old boys" run the system and good people don't make good decisions when they should. One person's move has a butterfly effect on everybody around him.
So basically, in 1926, Coralee's brother is killed by the sheriff, and it's ruled that the sheriff acted in self-defense. But that doesn't sit right with Coralee, and it actually doesn't sit right with the lawyer hired to defend the sheriff. Still, what's done is done, and life goes on in Green County. Then, Coralee starts to see the ghost of her dead brother. The town thinks she's crazy, and her sanity hearing before the judge (the young lawyer who defended the sheriff so long ago) gets the judge questioning his role in the past and how he might be able to right his wrongs.
The Gods of Green County is published by Blair and will be available to purchase tomorrow, October 5, 2021. I received a free review copy.
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