With the Devil's Help: A True Story of Poverty, Mental Illness, and Murder Wooten Neal
With the Devil's Help: A True Story of Poverty, Mental Illness, and Murder Wooten Neal In the tradition of The Glass Castle, Educated, and Heartland, Neal Wooten traces five decades of his dirt-poor,…
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With the Devil's Help: A True Story of Poverty, Mental Illness, and Murder Wooten Neal
In the tradition of The Glass Castle, Educated, and Heartland, Neal Wooten traces five decades of his dirt-poor, Alabama mountain family as the years and secrets coalesce.Neal Wooten grew up in a tiny community atop Sand Mountain, Alabama, where everyone was white and everyone was poor. If you wanted alcohol, you had to drive to Georgia or ask the bootlegger sitting next to you in church. Prohibition was still embraced.
The Wooten's lived a secret existence in a shack in the woods with no running water, no insulation, and almost no electricity. Tent revivals, snake handlers, and sacred harp music were the norm, and everyone was welcome as long as you weren't Black, brown, gay, atheist, Muslim, a damn Yankee, or a Tennessee Vol fan. Even the school bus and mail carrier wouldn't go there.
Neal's family could hide where they were, but not