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Ep 041 - Winter's Bone, by Daniel Woodrell

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Craig Getting, Arts, Books, Podcasts, Literature, Comedy, Andrew Cunningham

4.62.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2013

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

What do you do when your meth-cooking father goes missing in the Missouri Ozarks? Ask your relatives? Go to the cops? Dig for evidence yourself?

These are the options facing Ree Dolly, protagonist of Daniel Woodrell's 2006 novel Winter's Bone. Woodrell's described his Ozark-based work as "country noir" - a term we spend a minute or two attempting to define before launching into our discussion of the novel that was later adapted into an Oscar-nominated film starring Jennifer Lawrence. 

Bear with us as this episode gets started. We clearly needed to talk about Christmas trees, rowdy neighbors, and nine-volt batteries before discussing family and violence in rural America.

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0:00.0

While Andrew and Craig believe the joy of discovery is crucial to enjoying any well told tale,

0:05.1

they will not shy away from spoiling specific story beats when necessary.

0:10.4

Plus, these are books you should have read by now.

0:30.0

We've decorated for Christmas today.

0:37.6

Oh, okay, let's talk about that.

0:43.6

The cat makes it impossible to have the tree out where anybody can see it because he's trying

0:50.9

to eat it all the time. Why does he want to eat it?

0:54.9

Like I was standing next to it, spraying them with the spray bottle for like a half an hour

1:01.2

and the minute you turn your back, he's trying to chew on it. I don't know, like he likes green stuff.

1:06.4

And even though it's not a real tree, he seems to think it's real enough that it would taste good

1:13.2

if he ate it. So like I tried to spray it with some citrus stuff that's supposed to deter cats

1:19.5

and he will not be deterred and I'd like hit him like fooling in the face a bunch of times with

1:25.4

a spray bottle of water and he would run away and lick himself dry and then come back and try it

1:31.0

again. And so with like the Christmas trees in our bedroom right now.

1:34.1

Oh, bedroom Christmas because we can't leave it out and we haven't had a full size Christmas

1:40.0

tree since the first year that we got him because like every other morning you'd come out and

1:45.2

the tree would just be knocked over with all this stuff on it everywhere.

1:50.7

So we were hoping he would like grow out of this phase and he totally has not.

1:55.2

Oh, so you have you so you have a fake tree?

1:59.6

Yes. How big is it?

2:01.6

It's six feet. Well the box said it was six feet but it's not six feet tall. It's like

2:06.6

five eight. Well, God, that's terrible. It's false advertising.

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