I really struggled with how to rate this book. I really loved some aspects of it, but struggled with other parts. Betty follows a young half white half Cherokee girl growing up in small town Appalachia as she deals with trauma after trauma.

Betty is the youngest daughter and she is curious about everything. She loves her father and his stories. She loves her siblings too, but it becomes clear quickly that Betty’s life is not destined to go the way she thinks it is. 

Tragedy strikes the family one after another in unrelenting waves. At times, it made the book hard to continue. I felt like I had no time to process one traumatic event before the next one would hit. It left me feeling a bit numb as I was reading instead of emotionally connecting with what was happening. 

All in all, if you like slow moving emotional explorations of coming of age on a traumatic situation you may like this book. 

*Please, check the trigger warnings as there are a lot of them.