Delatora

What should prevail: family loyalty or loyalty to the truth? Is it ever a mistake to tell the truth, is there a time when lying to family is justified? Can you do the right thing and be sorry for it all your life? Delatora stars Violet Rue Kerrigan, a young woman who remembers her life after she, at the age of twelve, offered her testimony about the racist murder of an African-American boy by her older brothers and separated her hers from her family. In a succession of episodes remembered in an almost palpable way, Violet analyzes the circumstances of her life as the youngest of seven siblings, a girl in her beloved moment, who inadvertently "betrays" her siblings, leading to their arrest, their conviction and to his own distancing. This moving novel depicts a life of exile #exile with respect to parents, siblings, and the Church # that forces Violet to rebuild her own identity, break the powerful spell of the family. A long exile as a "informer" to reach a transformed life.