Winter's Bone article response

Winter's Bone article review
This article is a review of the book, Winter's Bone. This article is written by a man named Mel Odom. Mel gives a brief summary of the book which included his description of the main character, Ree. She is a sixteen year old girl living "one of the hardest lives I've ever heard of". He points out that the setting of the story is in the Ozarks, "a backward part of Missouri that's more like a Third World country". Mel relates to the story regarding the meth problem where he grew up, as well as the people where he grew up as "backward and suspicious of strangers". Mel also describes Ree's duties, chores, and genuine personality to care for her brothers and mother. Mel briefly addresses Ree's father and that he has posted bail by putting the family's home and land for collateral, so Ree goes hunting for him. Mel describes the story as being "dark and disturbing and true".

This article relates to Winter's Bone, the  book, because it is a review of the book. As far as I have read, this review describes the story to a T. Although I have not experienced what Ree and Mel have experienced, being around meth, I grew up in a small town where there were also "backward and suspicious strangers". The article describes the setting of the book, the Ozarks. The article describes the plot; Ree, a 16 year old girl taking care of her mother and brothers. Once finding out that her father has put their home up for bond, she goes searching for him running into bad, unhelpful people on the way. The book has dark details as the author of the article also uses.

Works Cited:
Odom, Mel. 2010. "Book Review: Winter's Bone by Daniel Woodrell". http://blogcritics.org/books/article/book-review-winters-bone-by-daniel/