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June, sixteen and pregnant, lives with her mother and stepfather in the Appalachian mountains in the Vietnam Era. When her baby girl is born, Isom, her stepfather steals it and June sets off on a journey to find her.Follow Pamela Steele on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads.
The abundance of the novel's strong female characters calls for a female director. Greta Gerwig is my choice, hands down. She's amazing, especially with her direction of Lady Bird.
In the Fields of Fatherless Children is a polyphonic novel told in third person and the first person voices of Bethel and Granny, the main character’s mother and grandmother.
June, the main character, is seventeen, resourceful and resilient, but suffering a quiet rage.
June’s physical appearance harkens to her Scots-Irish-Cherokee ancestors. Sadie Sink, of Stranger Things, is 23 but looks seventeen and I have no trouble seeing her standing up to Isom, her step-father, or searching a flooded holler or scavenging for food and tools.
Tom, June’s older brother, is protective and tender and doesn’t want to spend his life...[read on]
My Book, The Movie: In The Fields of Fatherless Children.
--Marshal Zeringue
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