Sunday, June 23, 2013

When Ree's dad skipped bail, did she ever find him?

Ree's quest to find her father before she loses their
house and land to the state.  He has put their timber, house and land up as collateral
for his bail bondsman to bail him out of jail, and then no one has seen him since. 
Whether he is dead or alive, Ree needs to find him so that she can keep what little her
and her siblings and mentally ill mother still
have.


Towards the end of the story, Ree's enemies take her
to find her father's body, dumped into an out of the way pond tied to a tire rim.  In
the novel's grisly conclusion, Ree has to hold up her father's arms so that her
enemies--the wives of other meth dealers who killed Ree's father--can chain saw off her
father's hands, horrible proof to the police that her father is indeed dead.  This is
the disturbing conclusion to the story.

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