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Saint Monkey
Saint Monkey | Jacinda Townsend
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Two friends from the mountains of eastern Kentucky try to retain their friendship when one of them is invited to play the Apollo with a jazz group while the other sinks lower in her poor, backward, backwoods life.
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Saint Monkey: A Novel | Jacinda Townsend
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I know this feeling quite well...

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THIS DICTION HAS ME SPELLBOUND...
"I see grief every day here on Queen Street. I see it in the dark undereyes of the girl who dusts the ceilings at Huggins Dime Store, the girl who, seven months gone, climbed into the woods of Mt. Sterling to push out her stillborn baby girl, begotten of the frog-eyed, otherwise-married lawyer old enough to be her own father.[...] I see it, but the adults all around me say grief is a thing unknown to children."