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In fact, I enjoyed the footnotes more than the Jack Sheppard story. I was somewhat disappointed by the shape of the plot, which unfolded all at once at the end. There was little space for Jack or Bess to be more than reactive as the plot happened around them. Confessions of the Fox is very squarely adult fiction, with little room to be enjoyed as a crossover with YA audiences. I would even go so far to say that Confessions of the Fox has toed the line over into erotic fiction, though it has happily managed to secure its seat as a critical darling anyway, perhaps by nature of its literary qualities and truly thoughtful musings on gender, academia, capitalism, the over-policing of marginalized communities, and most of all, questions of who is permitted to author history, and who must be content to editorialize.
For more from Jordy Rosenberg, visit his website here. Jodi McCarty was sentenced to life in prison in , when she was only seventeen.
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She suddenly finds herself free eighteen years later, and all she wants is to finish what she started eighteen years ago. Now that Jodi is out of prison, she picks up where she left off. Only, Ricky is an adult, now. Years later, separated from Golden, Miranda lives out of a motel, her life split between providing for her sons, working at a bar, and vanishing into drugs and sex.
There is no such thing as picking up where you left off. Sugar Run has a lot of moving parts, split across eighteen years. It is a novel that offers stories piecemeal in service of creating a final patchwork, the pattern only clear after the pieces have been sewn in place. The pieces that take place in slowly tell the story of how Jodi ended up going to prison.
The present day portions of the novel are equally tense. Rather than building up to an inevitable crime, however, the present day shows the juggling act of trying to survive while life throws one curveball after another. And in that self-discovery, Jodi discovers just what kind of net she finds herself trapped in on probation in Appalachia.
And that danger escalates in extreme measure before the novel ends. I have been chewing over the ending of the novel for several weeks in preparation for this review.
Sugar Run holds itself up as realism, but there is something cowboy-ish about this novel. Murder, shoot-outs, rescue missions, armed robbery, and extortion are all presented as if they are as inevitable to Appalachian life as going out for a beer. Or, interpretted another way, Jodi cannot have one without the other. Living off the land, being a cowboy, comes hand in hand with the brutal, larger than life consequences of living outside of the bounds of the modern world.
I recommend Sugar Run. It has the lilting, introspective tone of a literary novel, but unpretentiously in service of a character and story which have earned the elevated treatment - especially considering there is no lack of external conflict to move the story along.
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The list of trigger warnings may be lengthy, but never give a sour, hopeless taste to the book. For more from Mesha Maren, visit her website here. I live off of audiobooks lately, and I've been slogging through "This is a great book! I've found some winners but I've run into more than a few walls.
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I was fostered and ended up being adopted by my foster family. Growing up on a South London council estate, there wasn't much forward-thinking done by me or any of the other kids I grew up with. Along with education, what we were going to do with our lives didn't feature high on our agenda. Most parents worked part time locally, wherever they could find the work, if they could find work. My mother had a job as a cleaner, and then worked in a Laundromat until her boat came in and she got a full-time job at the local chocolate factory.
Most of the men worked on the docks, but the 'job for life' deal they had been promised was coming to an end. If your parents were really lucky, they had a job with London transport, or even better, at one of the printers in Fleet Street. So the highest hopes I ever had as a kid were wanting to become a bus driver or a printer, although the latter was never going to happen because I had no relatives working in print, and to get a job there you needed to know someone in the 'Chapter'.
You didn't need much education for any of those jobs, so that was it - why bother going to school? I didn't realise reading was something you could enjoy. All I needed was to get a council flat, with or without a job. I had that cracked because my parents were already on the list. Like lots of kids on the estate, as a teenager I felt angry with people who had shiny new cars or spotless motorbikes, simply because they had stuff and I didn't.
So I would vandalise people's shops, and mess up their goods, simply because they had it and I didn't. I went to nine different schools between the ages of 5 and 15, so I had a lot of teachers to be angry with too.
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I was annoyed that they kept putting me in remedial classes, but I didn't exactly do anything productive to get out of them. In fact, in the end, I used to like being at the bottom of the pile. It gave me yet another reason to feel angry. I liked feeling I was in the minority and that everyone was against me. I was part of a select club. I now felt my anger was justified, so I was entitled to do things that others couldn't or shouldn't do.
After all, when you have nothing to lose, you can do whatever you like. The only problem was that not everyone else saw things the same way, because by the age of 16, I ended up in juvenile detention. I was sent there for destroying a flat full of nice shiny things that someone else had worked hard for. I just didn't get that people had to work to get the things that I smashed up or stole, and to get work, you needed to be educated.
I just wanted everything without understanding how to get it. The army used to recruit soldiers from detention centres. I fell for the recruiting team's patter that I was going to become a helicopter pilot, but I soon found myself in an Infantry Junior Leaders Battalion and committed to six years of service. After three months of being shouted at and chased over assault courses - all the stuff that infantry soldiers do - we were marched off to the Army Education Centre.