On the one hand this book is both really funny and insightful in some significant ways; but on the other hand, it’s a kind of accidentally disturbing book than plays in some ordinary misogyny and casual sexual abuse. Fun! There’s a movie version of this starring Laura Dern in the title role and Robert Duvall as the father, with Lukas Haas as the adolescent narrator. The novel takes place in Georgia during the Great Depression. Our narrator is an adolescent in a more or less […]