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Betty by Tiffany McDaniel is an international bestseller. It’s a semi-literary fiction inspired by McDaniel’s mother, grandmother and aunts. McDaniel tells the story of her mother, Betty.

Betty‘s mother is a white-American and her father a Cherokee. The story is told in three parts starting in 1909 and leading the reader through Betty‘s�� coming-of age until the 1960‘s. McDaniel elaborates the hardship and discrimination Betty faces in her macro-environment whilst she is exposed to rage and disgrace by her mother and some of her siblings in her micro-environment. Against all the negativity, she draws power and self-confidence from her loving father. Eventually, Betty rises above the unfortunate chain of disturbing events to discover her own path upon earning her Highschool diploma.



❗️Trigger warning: Animal abuse, rape, drugs, child abuse. Repeat all the trigger warnings and multiply by 100 with the author‘s raw language of describing the disturbing events in lengthy ways.

I read this novel for my April Bookclub Meeting. Though I know that I won’t look at dandelions quite the same again without remembering Betty, I am still left with mixed emotions about this novel. I wouldn’t have picked this book, but I’m really glad to have read it. Yet, I wouldn’t proactively recommend this book to anyone. Do you know what I mean?