01386cam a2200301 i 4500 1262040841 TxAuBib 210608s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2021027557 9781250274328 125027432X (OCoLC)18563 TxAuBib rda Yun, Jung, author. O beautiful : a novel / Jung Yun. Oh beautiful. First edition. New York : St. Martin's Press, 2021. 309 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Elinor Hanson receives an unexpected assignment to write for a prestigious magazine about the Bakken oil boom in North Dakota. She grew up near the Bakken, and the longer she pursues this potentially career-altering assignment, the more her past intertwines with the story she's trying to tell. An immersive portrait of a community rife with tensions and competing interests, and one woman's attempts to reconcile her anger with her love of a beautiful, but troubled land. -- Adapted from publisher description. Asian American women Fiction. Women journalists Fiction. North Dakota Fiction. Dakota Access Pipeline Fiction.