Tawni O'Dell
Tawni O'Dell is the New York Times bestselling author of six novels, including Back Roads , which was an Oprah's Book Club pick and a Book-of-the-Month Club Main Selection. She is also a contributor to several anthologies, including Becoming Myself: Reflections on Growing Up Female . Her works have been published in more than forty countries.
Tawni O'Dell is the New York Times bestselling author of six novels, including Back Roads , which was an Oprah's Book Club pick and a Book-of-the-Month Club Main Selection. She is also a contributor to several anthologies, including Becoming Myself: Reflections on Growing Up Female . Her works have been published in more than forty countries. See less
Tawni O'Dell's Featured Books
Tawni O'Dell book reviews
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Coal Run
White Trash With Love
Not since Carolyn Chute has anyone written about poor white trash with such affection. In Coal Run, Ms. O? Dell?s characters populate a small run-down coal mining town in Pennsylvania because it is ... Read More
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Back Roads
A Pickup Named Desire
Back Roads flirts with a host of Appalachian cliché?s. Incest, abuse, molestation, alcoholism and infidelity sounds like a recipe of disaster for a first time novelist. Somehow, though, Ms. O?Dell ... Read More