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The book was described as a sweeping story about a family of women confronting abuse, grief, addiction, and poverty, and it was noted as a decently long novel.
Dorothy Allison's second novel, Cave Dweller, is a sweeping story about a family of women making it through abuse, grief, addiction, and poverty.
— Episode: NPR News: 11-08-2024 11PM EST
Episode: NPR News: 11-08-2024 11PM EST
The book was described as a sweeping story about a family of women confronting abuse, grief, addiction, and poverty, and it was noted as a decently long novel.
Dorothy Allison's second novel, Cave Dweller, is a sweeping story about a family of women making it through abuse, grief, addiction, and poverty.
It's a decently long book, too, and when Allison was on NPR in 1998, she was asked why she wrote such an expansive novel.