num_pages: 225
description: In the Ozarks, what you are is where you are born. If you're born in Venus Holler, you're not much. For Jamalee Merridew, her hair tomato red with rage and ambition, Venus Holler just won't cut it. Jamalee sees her brother Jason, blessed with drop-dead gorgeous looks and the local object of female obsession, as her ticket out of town. But Jason may just be gay, and in the hills and hollows of the Ozarks that is the most dangerous and courageous thing a man could be.Enter Sammy Barlach, a loser ex-con passing through a tired nowhere on the way to a fresher nowhere. Jamalee thinks Sammy is just the kind of muscle she and Jason need.
language: English
title: Tomato Red
titlecomplete: Tomato Red
genres: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Mystery, Noir, Mystery Thriller, Novels, Contemporary, Southern, Crime, Southern Gothic
ratings_count: 3330
places: West Table, Missouri, Ozark Mountains, Missouri
awards: awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Hammett Prize
publisher: Henry Holt & Company