Bastard Out of Carolina

Greenville County, South Carolina, is a wild and lush place that is home to the Boatwright family—a tight-knit clan of rough-hewn, hard-drinking men who shoot up each other's trucks, and indomitable women who get married young and age too quickly. At the heart of this story is Ruth Anne Boatwright, known simply as Bone, the illegitimate child who observes the world around her with a mercilessly keen perspective. When her stepfather Daddy Glen, cold as death and mean as a snake, becomes increasingly more vicious toward her, Bone finds herself caught in a family triangle that tests the loyalty of her mother, Anney.