This is my first Joe Lansdale novel.
It's about a seventeen-year-old girl, Dot Sherman, who lives with her mother, grandmother and baby brother in a trailer in East Texas, works six-hour shifts working as a "Fender Lizard" ( a waitress on roller skates serving food to folks in their cars) at the "Dairy Bob" and who is kinda sorta thinking about taking her GED ( Good Enough Diploma). Dot recounts her story directly to the reader. The audiobook is narrated by Kasey Lansdale, Joe Lansdale's daughter,
So far it's gotten off to an OK start, setting up the situation, establishing Dot's character and making me smile at Dot's sass from time to time. I'm hoping the humour holds up and we don't go all faux-folksy.
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