Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. A powerful, gripping, and exceptionally well-executed glimpse into a little-known corner of U.S. The Steep and Thorny Way - Ebook written by Cat Winters. Hanalee’s investigation of her father’s murder and her growing friendship with Joe are engrossing enough, but Winters amplifies the story by weaving Oregon’s troubling true history-state-sanctioned discrimination, eugenics, forced sterilization-throughout the tale, adding weighty, unsettling context to the slow-burning mystery. She has almost no rights by law, and the Ku. Instead, Hanalee discovers something far more rotten than a murderous uncle: the KKK are eager to rid Oregon of anyone who doesn’t conform to their ideals, and Hanalee, along with her parents and Joe Adder, is at the top of their list. 1920s Oregon is not a welcoming place for Hanalee Denney, the daughter of a white woman and an African-American man. Compellingly, Winters doesn’t cleave faithfully to the Hamlet story. Winters retells Hamlet in a grandly realized Prohibition-era Oregon setting, featuring biracial Hanalee in the title role, while the prejudices of the day simmer in the background. If that plot sounds vaguely Shakespearean, you wouldn’t be wrong. A thrilling reimagining of Shakespeares Hamlet, The Steep and Thorny. Now that Joe’s out of prison, Hanalee’s ready to get her revenge, but before she can fire the bullet home, Joe convinces her to take a closer look at her stepfather, Uncle Clyde, who married her mother quickly after her father’s death. by Cat Winters Related Edition: Original.

Hanalee Denney’s father has been haunting the crossroads of Elston, Oregon, right where Joe Adder ran him down in his Model T after a night out drinking.

The Steep & Thorny Way by Cat Winters