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12 mile road
airs sunday, september 28, 9 p. m. et / pt .
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in the
12 mile road ,
selleck plays stephen landis, a happy man on the surface with unresolved regrets underneath whose loving girlfriend, leah (anna gunn), and her teenage daughter roxanne (tegan moss), have recently moved in with him .
selleck says he was approached with the script for
12 mile road
several years ago, which he loved. but the movie was never shot. five years later, his agent approached the actor with the opportunity to work on the film. selleck explains he immediately wanted to star in the film .
george wilson owned two hundred acres of land along the twelve - mile straight road in 1930' s cotton county, georgia. additionally, he owned the cotton mill. the jesups were the principal sharecropping family since the turn of the century. juke jesup' s daughter elma and negro maid nan lived with juke in a house provided by george wilson while negro pickers like genus jackson lived in windowless shacks. elma jesup and nan grew up together and worked side by side in the cotton and cornfields. upon the
during the great depression life is hard in cotton county, georgia. in 1930 two babies are born; one light - skinned and the other dark. they are passed off as twins. on the day they are born genus jackson is lynched and dragged behind a truck along the twelve–mile straight, the road leading to the nearby town. the family is soon being torn apart by the dark secrets they all share. set in the dark days of the depression, this epic story tells of great suffering in the small world of georgia as the in
parents need to know that twelve mile road is a melodrama with mature themes about a troubled teenage girl' s summer stay with her divorced father on his farm. it features teen pregnancy, an abortion discussion, the death of a newborn baby, animal cruelty, some profanity (including
bitch
and
ass
), and a farm animal death though the message is ultimately a story about how a broken family heals itself over the years after a divorce, there are some clear pro - life, christian messages and heavy themes best for older kids .
florence, georgia, cotton county, the twelve mile straight road in 1930' s, depressed times on a farm. lynching and racism that makes you sick, women abused, deception and lies and secrets, some genuinely evil people. in the midst of it all a
colored
and a white baby are born. they called them gemini twins, and they wanted you to believe they were born of the same mother at the same time but of two fathers and because of that lie a man is lynched. up front i have to say this is dark, grueso
now i got to see that exact scene in person. steamboat springs didn’t have much beyond that single main road, really. we enjoyed the one day we spent there. i imagined it had a lot more to offer during skiing season .
things to consider: snow - covered mountains; a broad, flat valley; width of the road; the type of cars; the man’s style of clothing; his stance and physique; buildings in the background and their awnings; stoplights and street light .
i always need at least one extra article to collect all the odds and ends that don’t fit anywhere else. generally those involve locations or topics that might be a little off center or peculiar. in other words, they certainly fit the definition of things needing a twelve mile circle visit, and maybe even worthy of a detour. they might not appeal to everyone although i bet at least one or two would sound interesting to most readers .
i would like to thank harper collins / ecco and eleanor henderson for the advanced readers copy in exchange for an honest review. 1930 cotton county, georgia and a young elma jesup finds herself pregnant. she gives birth to twins but to everyones surprise including her own, her daughter is light skinned and her son is dark skinned. the townspeople accuse local farmhand genus jackson of raping her. genus is lynched, dragged by truck down the twelve - mile straight and then dumped in the town square .
just down the road from buford stood a tree growing out of a rock. oddly this simple occurrence had some notoriety going back more than a hundred and fifty years. yes, literally a tree in a rock. people stopped to see tree rock and naturally i felt compelled to do the same .
county counting scratched an important itch along my preferred route and it also offered an attractive side benefit; being able to stay in a lot of different colorado towns. each one displayed its own distinct personality. admittedly i gained a skewed perspective at ski resorts without the snow or crowds although i didn’t have any control over the timing either. several of the towns made it into earlier twelve mile circle articles and my adventures overlapped with some of those topics. now i finally got to see these rocky mountain places in person .
set in rural georgia during the years of the depression and prohibition. cotton county, georgia, 1930: in a house full of secrets, two babies, one light skinned, the other dark, are born to elma jesup, a white sharecroppers daughter. field hand genus jackson is accused of her rape. he is lynched and dragged down the - twelve - mile - straight. in the aftermath, the farms inhabitants are forced to contend with their compliantly in a series of events that left a man dead and a family irrevocably fractur
the twelve mile straight by eleanor henderson is an epic historical novel set in georgia in 1930. it was reminiscent of john steinbeck' s of mice and men in both the style and atmosphere. back in the 1930' s the deep south continued to be a divide between the white and black americans. there were lies and lynchings, rapes and violence, and people turning a blind eye everywhere. it is not a comfortable read. it is deeply disturbing. in contrast there was love and loyalty between two girls... one blac
i began my run, made it a couple tenths of a mile and… started sucking wind. obviously i hadn’t acclimated as much as i’d thought. my legs seemed fine although i couldn’t get enough oxygen pumping to move them at anywhere near my normal pace. i throttled way back until i found a comfortable speed, a full minute and a half per mile slower than my normal pace. nonetheless i pounded the pavement for a little more than six miles (10 km) and finished exhausted .
to see all of my book - related content, check out my blog @ urltoken the twelve - mile straight is not an easy book to read. it is not one that you read in one sitting or one that you read whilst sipping a cocktail, transported to a feeling of bliss. there is no happiness to be found in these pages, only anger and frustration and annoyance at the fact that you can’t step into them and save the characters from the cruel world in which they inhabit. i had to keep taking a step back from t
how i hate to begin this review with the sentence ,
let me begin by saying how much i admired and loved eleanor henderson' s debut ten thousand saints .
because this infers that i wasn' t as impressed with her new novel, the twelve - mile straight. sadly, that is indeed the case. henderson' s second book takes place in the depression era south, rural georgia to be exact. it centers around the family of elma jessup, a young white woman living with her sharecropper father, juke, and their african americ
one of the great joys of reading is discovering an debut author whose work just blows you away. eleanor henderson did that to me with her 2011 novel ten thousand saints, set in 1987 new york city and vermont. it is such an amazing book (made into a movie in 2015), i put it on my most compelling books of 2011 list. i was thrilled to hear that henderson would be at the book expo this year signing copies of her followup novel, the twelve - mile straight. i was first in a long line of people, all eager
wow! i was not surprised that this novel was a tough read, given the subject matter, but i was surprised that it was so good! the author made rural georgia in the 1930s come alive with her descriptions of daily life and the struggles to make ends meet. the characters were well developed, as the story was told from varying viewpoints. the selfishness of human motivations were laid bare in this book, sparing no one. i loved how the truths in the story were revealed slowly, in layers, reaching backward and forward in time, until it was a fully formed yet imperfect flower. my mind keeps going back to the twelve - mile straight and the lives lived and lost there .
independence pass allowed automotive traffic on colorado state highway 82 to cross the sawatch range and the continental divide. this covered the shortest direct distance between aspen and our next stop in leadville. however, the road also closed during the winter and didn’t reopen usually until the friday before memorial day. sometimes it opened later and i sweated out those details as our trip approached. we caught a nice break and it opened on time this year so we drove across the pass about five days after its seasonal availability .
i didn' t even know this was made for television... a good small film with good acting. maggie grace and tom selleck have great chemistry as father and daughter, the rest of the cast isn' t bad either. the quiet pace fits well with the country atmosphere, and dulcie' s journey to finding herself again is believable. the most impressive scene in the movie, for me, was when dulcie ran into the forest, her dad catches her, she screams and her dad asks' are you crazy?'. that' s where the chemistry really clicks, i get the feeling some other actors might have completely ruined the film. 12 mile road is not a very original film, not even particularly thought - provoking or profound, but it' s a great pick to watch a film with your girlfriend that both of you can enjoy. recommended unknown film .
after several rocky years, divorced farmer stephen landis (tom selleck) seems to have gotten his life together: his business is thriving, and his personal life has found stability and support in the form of his current girlfriend, leah (anna gunn), and her teenaged daughter, roxanne (tegan moss). things change radically when dulcie (maggie grace), stephen' s 16 - year - old daughter from his first marriage, comes to stay at his farm for the summer. stephen' s ex angela (wendy crewson) has warned him that the mercurial, streetwise dulcie is
troubled
- - but that' s not the half of it. the girl' s disruptive and self - destructive behavior, coupled with stephen' s ingrown feelings of guilt, threatens to ruin his present life and blight his future - - until fate, and a driving rainstorm, intervene. made for television 12 mile road first aired september 28, 2003 .
residents of denver often call it the
mile high city
because its downtown closely straddles the 5, 280 foot (1, 609 metre) barrier. the local baseball stadium even features a row of purple seats on its upper deck to mark the memorable elevation. while impressive to a flatland easterner like me, it hardly compared to some of the other places i reached in colorado. i doubled that elevation during our adventure and pushed upwards even farther .
i hadn’t planned to increase our elevation gradually as the week progressed although our selected route did just that. it seemed like a good idea in retrospect even if it happened by coincidence. on the second day we’d bumped our altitude from a mile high to about 6, 900 ft. (2, 100 m .) as we arrived in steamboat springs. i began to feel acclimated at that point, no longer woozy and lightheaded from oxygen deprivation. my body seemed to have adjusted .
thanks to edelweiss and ecco books for an advanced copy of this book. after reading the first chapter of this doorstop of a historical fiction novel, i thought i was going to love it. it had a great first line, was hard - hitting, and hooked me immediately. but, the story just went on and on and on. i felt like i was reading this book for weeks (it was actually 10 days). henderson told the extended backstories of seemingly almost every character in the book, which could have been cut back. i just wanted the story to be tighter, because it certainly had good bones (to use a real estate term). and, by the time i got to the end, i didn’t care about the answers to most of the major questions…i just wanted to be done. who thought this was a good idea? * to be fair, i didn’t have much time to read during the first half of the twelve - mile straight and i wonder if i would’ve felt differently had i been able to invest more time and mental energy to it up front. for more reviews, visit my blog: urltoken
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a divorced farmer takes in his troubled teenage daughter for the summer, a summer which changes the lives of the two of them, and their friends and family .
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divorced farmer stephen landis has girlfriend leah and her daughter roxanne move in with him. his wild and unpredictable 16 year old daughter dulcie comes for a summer visit. stephen believes his ex - wife angela is exaggerating dulcie' s troubles, but comes to worry about her. dulcie and roxanne form a friendship, and with the time spent over the summer, grows closer to her father, and the wounds between all three are healed .
it' s highly unlikely that a small suv (probably a ford explorer) could hit a cow hard enough to kill it. and drive away. the damage to the radiator alone would be more than enough to stop the car. and as the car drove away there was no apparent damage to the hood or right front fender .
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their peaceful country life is soon disrupted by the arrival of stephen' s wild and unpredictable 16 - year - old daughter dulcie (maggie grace). at first, stephen thinks his overwhelmed ex - wife, angela (wendy crewson), whom he still misses, has exaggerated dulcie' s troubles. however, he soon witnesses dulcie' s bizarre and destructive behavior .
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when i saw dulcie feed that cow anti - freeze, i wanted to beat her within an inch of her life. i' m glad i never had children because i would die to see one of them do something so evil like that .
solid hallmark - style movie. didn' t get to watch it all the way through, but saw most of it, and while it' s cheesy, it was pretty entertaining. until i get to watch the whole thing, i' m going to temporarily rate this four stars. this will probably be my final rating though .
this is the kind of lifetime movie that you might find yourself watching when your child is up all night with a tummy bug. the plot is a cliche and the acting is uninspired. ohio' s maggie grace is probably the highlight .
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a divorced farmer takes in his troubled teenage daughter for the summer, a summer which changes the lives of the two of them, and their friends and family. stars tom selleck, wendy crewson, maggie grace and anna gunn .
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family; grief; healing; space to change and grow; dealing with your problems .
dad is patient and caring; mom wants what' s best for her teenage daughter. other adults are engaged and present; most of the teenagers are presented as hardworking and honest. central protagonist dulcie is a troubled girl who taunts, provokes, and mocks to test boundaries but eventually finds meaning in her life .
a truck almost hits a girl, swerves, hits a cow, killing it; newborn baby dies, shown in coffin; girl feeds cow antifreeze; woman with bruised face says she' s been hit by boyfriend; girl calls her mom and pretends she' s the police, saying she' s been raped and murdered; mom slaps daughter; man cuts cow open to save calf, but no bloodshed .
some kissing; a woman in a nightgown; shirtless guy pours water over his head; girl tells friend to have an orgasm while looking at a guy; man and woman in bed after implied intercourse; teenage girl discusses fear of pregnancy; abortion discussed openly as an option to unplanned pregnancy .
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fed up with her daughter' s acting out and bad attitude, divorced mom angela (wendy crewson) sends troubled teen dulcie (maggie grace) to live with dad stephen (tom selleck) on his farm. soon dulcie makes friends with dad' s new girlfriend' s daughter, roxanne, learns to help around the farm, and begins to figure out how to give more meaning to her life .
as a divorced couple resonate, and some of the quieter but more authentic moments of life on the farm have a picturesque beauty. but the movie hinges on troubled teen dulcie, who overacts through the film with tantrums and provocations that are never really explained and that don' t seem to fit the quiet thoughtfulness of everyone else in the picture .
plus, it throws some heavy punches in the maturity department: teen pregnancy, animal cruelty, a newborn' s death, a frank discussion of abortion as murder, some evangelism, and profanity throughout. this is more likely to be a hit among christian families who are looking for a reaffirming message, even if it throws a few curveballs. likely to spark discussions .
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a divorced rancher struggles to reconnect with his emotionally troubled 15 - year old daughter he hasn' t seen in ten years .
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at the beginning of the show seattle attorney angela landis (wendy crewson, an actress i quite like whose presence in this film was one of the reasons i wanted to see it) has had it with her rebellious teen daughter dulcie (maggie grace). the last straw is when angela catches dulcie getting a great deal of her body tattooed (though no trace of tattooing is seen on maggie grace’s body throughout the rest of the film); she yanks her out of the tattoo parlor and announces that she’s shipping her off for the summer to her dad, stephen landis (tom selleck, top - billed) .
number; they bought a farm in idaho, intending to stay there a few years and then return to city life — only he loved the great outdoors so much that he chose to stay there, while she hated it so much that she bailed on the marriage, moved back to seattle, got her law degree and settled into private practice, attempting to raise dulcie as a single parent and concentrate on her career. unbeknownst to angela, stephen has just met a new girlfriend, leah (anna gunn), and she’s just moved into the farmhouse and brought her own daughter roxanne (tegan moss) with her. the moment dulcie shows up at the farmhouse and hates it so viscerally that she lashes out by feeding antifreeze to one of her dad’s cows (it was interesting that lifetime ran this right after
, which also contained a scene in which a troubled child took out his / her own outrage on a cow), we just know that scenarist richard friedenberg (adapting a novel by robert boswell) is going to have her eventually fall in love with the place and want to stay there .
the child has a rare genetic ailment and only survives a few days, but in the meantime leah has bailed on farm life and told stephen that she regrets that she ever met him — and dulcie departs the idaho farm community on schedule but turns out to be listless and uninvolved in her old life. with the same kind of desperation ronald colman showed to get back to shangri - la at the end of
, dulcie steals her mom’s credit card, buys herself a plane ticket to idaho, hitchhikes from the airport to daddy’s farm and announces her intention to stay there — and when her mom shows up to retrieve them, mom and dad (who’ve been divorced for a decade, remember) end up in bed together. with mom’s career preventing a full - on reconciliation, she agrees to let dulcie move back in with her dad and, in the final scene, dulcie and her dad keep a dying cow alive long enough to give birth to a calf (the credits even list lee romaire for “special makeup effects: calf birthing sequence, calf puppet”) .
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as a resident of idaho, i couldn' t resist watching this movie, plus it had tom selleck. the storyline was common enough, divorced parents, daughter lives with mom, daughter is a wreck, mom dumps daughter on dad who has a farm, and daughter goes from bad to tolerable. actually, the plot works, simply because everyone plays the part like real people. it' s almost like we stepped into a reality show. we don' t get to see every little thing lined out (hmm, we have to think for ourselves? that' s different), and there is no great resolution. life is like that sometimes - - most of the time. this was a pleasant way to spend the evening, but not a terribly memorable movie. tom played a farmer fairly well, and the rest of the cast filled in the movie all right. the only character that didn' t get a chance to develop was leah, tom' s live - in girlfriend. she wasn' t allowed much range, yet the one line she delivers about wishing she hadn' t ever met tom' s character felt real and sincere. if it comes around on tv or if you want a soft free watch from hulu - give this one a try .
enjoyed this picture which dealt with a farmer, stephen landis, (tom selleck) who lives with his wife and his wife' s daughter. it seems that stephen was married to another woman and they also had a daughter and his ex - wife was having problems with her teenage daughter and decides to send her to her father for a few months during the summer. the teenage girl is from the city and on the wild side of life and going on a farm will simply blow her mind completely away, which it does. there are all kinds of problems that face this family during the summer and of course, one of the girls becomes pregnant along with cows as well. nice drama and tom selleck gave an outstanding performance in this film which was photographed in the state of idaho. good viewing .
i' d like to see the sequel of that movie. the movie portrays a situation common or frequent enough in life. all the characters play parts that are believable. i' m not including details not to spoil it for others, but the end of this movie is really the beginning of another story. i' d like to see more of that story. i particularly enjoyed the males' dialogue lines in the movie. they portrayed strong men, living strong, respectable values. the men portrayed good role models. the women' s lines were all decent as well. thank you for that. i' d love to be part of a writing team of that genre and caliber. thanks again .
i thoroughly enjoyed this down - to - earth story of a divorced couple who get together again, love blossoms once more and a family is back together again. the entire cast does a great job in this very touching tale with a good message. i am very pleased that such an appealing film was even considered for production in today' s hateful film climate where almost every movie has to have flaming car wrecks, burning buildings, grotesque monsters, space ships and godawful special effects. this film is about real people in real situations that touch one' s heart. let' s have more like this. my only objection: tom selleck wears a grossly inappropriate monstrous moustache. shave it off, tom! and for scenes where you don' t have a shirt on, you might shave your chest, too, which looks like an overgrown forest !
unrealistic. because who would put up with a daughter like this, besides and extraordinarily weak father? who would let their immature, naive 18 yr old daughter get married? even if she is pregnant? who would expose the daughter of a gf to his daughter if she was in this shape, and then stick up for her no matter what, and get mad at his gf for telling him the truth about her? and then there is the feeding of the anti freeze to the poor cow. to me, this is the movie about a really weak father and his damaged daughter. i would have straightened her up, not made excuses for her misbehavior, or expect others to put up with it .
now this is what i call a good movie! ! my melissa and i watched it and absolutely loved it! it was about a man who lived in the country. he had a daughter who was a mess. the daughter' s mom made her move up to her dad' s farm. yes, the mom and dad are divorced. so, this beast of a girl moves up there and feeds one of tom sellecks' s cows ant freeze. that was amazingly cruel. tom selleck' s character even misses a wedding because he wanted to help a cow become unstuck. that was interesting. i love cows as well, but i mean, come on. there was an unusual cameo by patch adams. it' s so hard to see that though. so many good things about this movie. i don' t regret watching this tear jerker. in other words, my dame cried .
rachel mcadams and keira knightley would be so disappointed in maggie grace... : - (
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divorced farmer stephen landis lives a normal life with his girlfriend leah and her daughter, roxanne until his daughter dulcie comes for a summer visit after having a fight with her mother. during the summer dulcie starts to heal her problems with her parents and they get together again .
divorced farmer stephen landis lives a normal life with his girlfriend leah and her daughter, roxanne until his daughter dulcie comes for a summer visit after having a fight with her mother. during the summer dulcie starts to heal her problems with her parents and they get together again. (less )
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a divorced farmer (tom selleck) deals with the unexpected arrival of his troubled daughter (maggie grace) .
from new york times bestselling author eleanor henderson, an audacious american epic set in rural georgia during the years of the depression and prohibition. cotton county, georgia, 1930: in a house full of secrets, two babies - one light - skinned, the other dark - are born to elma jesup, a white sharecropper’s daughter. accused of her rape, field hand genus jackson is lynched a
[ no, elms was not raped, was part of the cover up. wilson was nan' s child by genus jackson, from whom he inherited sickle cell disease. (hide spoiler) ]
[ the author wasn’t clear whether genus and elma had sex - i can understand why it made sense to leave it up in the air at first, and i concluded that they were not physically involved despite desire on both parts. however, one sentence on page 168 said that
he had a hand on both their behinds
. i guess this is more a question for the author - why does the novel say this? (hide spoiler) ]
as far as i could tell he was just fantasizing that part, of having both girls. he never laid a hand on elma and did have sex with nan
this historical southern gothic novel set in the depression era and prohibition is a hard read with its relentless depiction of the jim crow time. it is 1930 in florence, cotton county, georgia, when a sharecropper' s daughter, elma jesup, a white single woman, gives birth to the gemini twins, one baby is white, and the other is' coloured', an exceedingly strange event. elma' s father, juke, who sells moonshine, is instrumental in pointing the finger at the good, kind and sweet genus jackson as th
e - galley provided through the generosity of edelweiss, ecco publishing and author, eleanor henderson, to be published september 12, 2017. a shout - out to bookseller, charles bottomley of northshire bookstore, manchester, vermont for his recommendation of this forthcoming book. eye - brows are raised and tongues are wagging as well you might think they would be when you hear the premise of this story set in 1930’s cotton county, georgia. elma jessup, the unmarried pregnant daughter of a sharecropper
i came to respect and appreciate this novel more than it promised in its opening pages. but i never did come around to liking it, exactly. which i daresay is the author' s intent. ms. henderson testifies to this on the back cover :
i wanted to capture the innocence of those country stories, and also to fracture it .
fracture it she does, far beyond a funhouse mirror and into a thousand jagged shards. this is a punishing book. oh, it' s easy enough to read, and (for the most part) smoothly told in it
* * 3. 75 - 4 * * eleanor henderson had me hooked from page one – with the mystery of these two babies born with different skin colors (no spoiler – this is part of the book jacket copy). then she reeled me in with the unimaginable actions of one of the characters against her own daughter. and i had to know: “how on earth could she…? ” and “why on earth would she? ” and then… other events occur that had me flipping pages for more answers. the stakes are high early - on in this story that is a reminder of the
find all my book reviews, plus fascinating author interviews, exclusive guest posts and book extracts, on my blog: urltoken the book is written in a distinctive narrative style which conjures up the period and location in which it is set. from its immensely powerful opening chapter, the book tells a story of poverty, cruelty, prejudice and secrets. ‘there were things no one wanted known by the outside, and no one knew that better than elma. ’ although it would be unfa
this got off to an emotive start with the lynching of a young black man accused of raping a white girl who has given birth to twin babies, one white, one black. but this implausible scenario is just the start of a tale which feels predictable, overly melodramatic, and too long. with a narrative which moves back and forth in time and with extended back stories to new characters, the plot seems to circle and stall rather than progress. the themes, too, can be ticked off on one hand: rape, violence
this got off to an emotive start with the lynching of a young black man accused of raping a white girl who has given birth to twin babies, one white, one black. but this implausible scenario is just the start of a tale which feels predictable, overly melodramatic, and too long. with a narrative which moves back and forth in time and with extended back stories to new characters, the plot seems to circle and stall rather than progress. the themes, too, can be ticked off on one hand: rape, violence, patriarchy, racism, misogyny... all important issues, for sure, but they' re too pat here, used for dramatic effect rather than real insight. the twisted relationships feel contrived and the writing is somehow distanced so that it' s difficult to feel involved. there are a lot of books out there about the american south and its oppressive past: this one repeats all the usual tropes and adds nothing new to the mix .
dnf' d this one at the halfway point. i was into it when it first started, but by the halfway point, it seemed like the plot was spinning its wheels in the mud. part of it was for every character in the novel, there was a lengthy backstory to introduce. the shifts between the character' s past and where they were in the current timeline was not handled smoothly. i also didn' t buy the
gemini twins
angle because it seemed so implausible that people in the area who knew the family would be gullible
dnf' d this one at the halfway point. i was into it when it first started, but by the halfway point, it seemed like the plot was spinning its wheels in the mud. part of it was for every character in the novel, there was a lengthy backstory to introduce. the shifts between the character' s past and where they were in the current timeline was not handled smoothly. i also didn' t buy the
gemini twins
angle because it seemed so implausible that people in the area who knew the family would be gullible enough to think both the colored baby and the white baby were born to elma. maybe it was better explained in the portion of the book i skipped. henderson does have a nice way with description and the dialogue seemed authentic, so did the historical aspects. maybe some stronger editing might' ve served the story better and tightened it up into a four - star read for me .
i loved this book! it was written with such authenticity that you almost thought it was a work of non - fiction. you can tell the author did a lot of research on the area even down to the cadence in the deep south during that era. it was uncomfortable to read about the mistreatment of many of these characters as the author makes you feel like you are right in the room. well done !
thanks to edelweiss and ecco books for an advanced copy of this book. after reading the first chapter of this doorstop of a historical fiction novel, i thought i was going to love it. it had a great first line, was hard - hitting, and hooked me immediately. but, the story just went on and on and on. i felt like i was reading this book for weeks (it was actually 10 days). henderson told the extended backstories of seemingly almost every character in the book, which could have been cut back. i just w
wow! i was not surprised that this novel was a tough read, given the subject matter, but i was surprised that it was so good! the author made rural georgia in the 1930s come alive with her descriptions of daily life and the struggles to make ends meet. the characters were well developed, as the story was told from varying viewpoints. the selfishness of human motivations were laid bare in this book, sparing no one. i loved how the truths in the story were revealed slowly, in layers, reaching back
i don' t know where to start, i loved this book so much. how ms. henderson can be in the mind of so many people and write like she was there just astounds me. she made me feel i was there in this tale of poverty, hate, prejudice, and just plain evil. mixed ancestry incest rounds out the story. not for the faint hearted, but not to be missed .
first, i' d like to thank ecco for the giveaway and goodreads for hosting it! i' m so very grateful for the chance to pick this book up! while i didn' t particularly enjoy this book there was nothing inherently wrong with it, the writing was beautiful, the characters interesting, i would even go so far as to say the non - linear plot was expertly crafted. i felt immersed while i was reading it but as soon as i put it down it felt like a chore to pick it back up, i think this is due to two main reasons
first, i' d like to thank ecco for the giveaway and goodreads for hosting it! i' m so very grateful for the chance to pick this book up! while i didn' t particularly enjoy this book there was nothing inherently wrong with it, the writing was beautiful, the characters interesting, i would even go so far as to say the non - linear plot was expertly crafted. i felt immersed while i was reading it but as soon as i put it down it felt like a chore to pick it back up, i think this is due to two main reasons. one, despite being complex, i felt virtually no connection to the characters. maybe this is because of the style of narration or perhaps it' s because their only purpose to the story was a vehicle for the tragic circumstances of the plot. which brings me to number two, everything is so very bleak and joyless with no relief from characters, dialogue nor circumstance. i' m sure this is by design and clearly it worked for many people, it just didn' t work for me.
twelve mile road is a 2003 drama film based on the new york times best selling book mystery ride by robert boswell . the film was directed and written for teleplay by richard friedenberg . the story is set in idaho and follows the challenging relationship between a daughter and her estranged father as they reunite and attempt to work out their complicated family issues . twelve mile road is a made-for-television film starring tom selleck that debuted on cbs in 2003 . 
twelve mile road is a 2003 drama film based on the new york times best selling book mystery ride by robert boswell. the film was directed and written for teleplay by richard friedenberg. the story is set in idaho and follows the challenging relationship between a daughter and her estranged father as they reunite and attempt to work out their complicated family issues. twelve mile road is a made-for-television film starring tom selleck that debuted on cbs in 2003.
twelve mile road is a 2003 drama film based on the new york times best selling book mystery ride by robert boswell. the film was directed and written for teleplay by richard friedenberg. the story is set in idaho and follows the challenging relationship between a daughter and her estranged father as they reunite and attempt to work out their complicated family issues. twelve mile road is a made-for-television film starring tom selleck that debuted on cbs in 2003.